Paradise

Wind And Rain

Heron, heron, heron
I always knew
That you would be the one
To see this through

Heron, heron, heron
There is a time
And place for those we love
To take a life

When there was a time
For us to be
Passing on a dime
To let life bleed

Heron, heron, heron
You always fly
Just when I'm about
To say "goodbye"

Heron

Blue morn
A bitter chill set in
Stalling time for just a breath
Cold scorn
Ever brewing in
The clouds bleeding in from the west

By noon
All the thrushes
Leave the forest’s fiery hearth
And that moon
Ushers in a new wave
Terrified, culling the earth

Of all the reasons not to run
Ochre season's not begun
You owe the world one final round
Til greenery bursts forth from the ground

That black
Inky canvass sky
Folding in on life so grim
For hours
Leaving nothing but
The winter owl’s haunting hymn

And a light
Filters through the trees
Barren to the eyes of babes
Old life
Battered bruisy thieves
Fleeing from the icy daze

Ochre season paid in bounds
Seeping life into the ground
Visions of a forest bare
A crystal floor to keep and care
Slumber falling from the sky
Frozen tendrils stuck in time
Visions of a forest clean
Slate and powder, a trap to freeze

Ochre Season

More Than This

I don’t have
The gumption gifted to me
When I was young
There’s no way
To keep that energy up

But there’s one thing
That my mother taught me
And boy I can’t forget
There’s nothing
More toxic than regret

Riding on the highs and lows
How it goes and
There ain’t no reason to cry
But I cry anyway
I cry anyway

Life is hard
Every time we make it
We get knocked down
There’s no need
To take the easy way out

It gets easier
If you take the waves
One swell at a time
Banking on
What makes you feel right

Riding on the highs and lows
How it goes and
There ain’t no reason to cry
But I cry anyway
I cry anyway
Fade into the motion of the ocean
Don’t you blow it
Don’t throw your life away
Just take it a day
At a time

Brittany Mitchell