chagall backdrop

I seek the promise of April
when August comes to end

hope’s resigned
run its course

hand in hand in hand
bygone sunlit trio

children grow old
falter

return to earth
they do

overgrown paths
we walk

yet traces
of old stones

still visible
errant trails

that once led straight
and wide

we were spry katydids
weren’t we?

spring in our heels
will-o’-the-wisps

the last season’s
hardest

now hand in hand
two lonesome

break
harder ground

© Carlos Chagall, 2013