Fool's Paradise

Curse be upon the winter's frost

Love's garden lies to rot in cold

Summer's glory has long been lost

This fabled passion has grown old

Passing days hardly stop to sigh

Or reminisce its past embrace

Rainbow beholds a smile gone wry

Mistaking it for gentle grace

Icy chills burn tears in its eyes

Creeping into the muffled screams

The earth's gone hollow in its cries

From jaded fears of dreamless dreams

Trespassers tread on virgin beds

With blackened feet on blackened flowers

And somewhere in the deepest reds

Creeps in the blue of painful hours

No saviour for fool's paradise

Has come this way and stayed a while

And yet it waits for one sunrise

To bear it through the winter's guile