• A Handful of Green

    "All for nothing or nothing for all"
    That is what he said,
    On that day when the sun shone like it never had.
    We were happy then,
    Despondent lovers,
    Clinging on the hope of each other.

    But the sun went down
    Just as we knew it would
    We thought all is not lost
    The trees are still green,
    The birds they still sing.
    But the singing, it too, soon stopped.

    The chill in the air
    Became the ice in our hearts
    The trees, they wept
    For the love that was lost
    Their leaves stained the ground
    With oranges and brown,
    And the colour washed out of his eyes.

    Then winter came
    And dressed me all in white
    Such a beautiful bride, but he was no longer mine
    So I whispered good-bye
    As the sun began again to shine
    And just like he said I had nothing...
    But everything
    Just the birds' sing song eulogy
    And a handful of green.