Away

I have been away for much too long
It feels normal but I know it is wrong

Summer's warmer rays are long gone
and the bright colorful shades forlorn

Winter's tears, frozen, silently falling at dawn
amidst the fallen in the hidden withered lawn 

I step in the white field, avoiding the moss
I feel an unbelievable painful sense of loss

As the winter birds fly by, one by one,
I call the names of those that are gone

I see their happy faces and feel their love
I smile and wave to a quiet mourning dove