I See You Everywhere Poem by Barry Middleton

I see you everywhere
a memory drifting in the air

a phantom left behind
that haunts if only to remind

the images are strange
privations sure to tease the brain

in fall the maple leaves
weep with me as nature grieves

the green that used to be
is shrouded now in burgundy

birds flee the cold
knowing summer cannot hold

the river rushes on
youth and strength soon are gone

the promise of the sun
is vanished now that day is done

I see you everywhere
in losses that are hard to bear