The Fly Life

Just to watch the smile come across your face

Like an autumn breeze on a Sunday afternoon in October. 

I stare from the window and watch 

As the leaves change colors and get carried away by wind. 

The sun reaches past the glass and sets the amber and brown in my eyes aflame. 

I want to be there with you through the book of your life. 

Help you write pages that turn into chapters,

Falls that turn into winters. 

Light my fire, and shelter me enough without putting it out. 

When everything melts into a lovely spring, 

Pale rose will settle on my cheeks when you come around. 

Help me to understand you the best way I know how. 

Not expecting flowers to bloom in spring when every year that wait for summer. 

Rain will always come and go,

But that just means that the lilies will grow later

And set the hillside on fire

In the middle of the summer. 

And as the sun sets on an August day

That we spent together under golden skies,

Hold me close by,

I don't want this summer to end. 

Just promise that you'll be there when the time has come

To show me another Autumn.