River's End

I knew a little cabin
by a river in the wood,
where the wet road wandered
wherever water could.

The lazy waves crept by me
as I walked along the bank,
following their quiet song
to where the music sank.

There I knelt beneath a willow
weeping leaves like waterfalls,
and listened to a trickled tune
behind my whispering walls.

A heavy heat slept on my skin,
the golden breath of summer’s sun,
lulling me to lay down there
until the day was done.

With shadows hardly shifting
as time washed away my mind,
I lost thought of all the other homes
which I had left behind.

I only knew the cabin
and the river with a song
so sweet that when I heard it
I was swiftly swept along.

Had summer stopped forever here,
a tear time couldn’t mend?
I dreamed beneath the still gold sun
beside the river’s end.