Already In The Air And In The Sky Poem by Emmanuel George Cefai

Already in the air and in the sky
Lead color sometimes appears:
‘tis the sign
That summer will soon end:

I long for lead a little lead of sky
After the glorious suns of summer
The blood coursed red and raw and fast
But now
Less coursing I feel it wants to be:
More cool, perhaps more rational
And welling up more pleasure all the same
It longs to bask
To bask away from suns
Into the mellow autumn coolness that will come.

But night, this night
Will soon cover all
The little lead of sky it goes
And night buries it
Buries in its folds of dark
And with it goes
There goes the first glimpse of Autumn
And its strange serenity.

To-night, this night.