Winter rushes through the rusted screen,
Pine smoke clings where your coat had been

You left with a note in a coffee can
Said, “Don’t chase ghosts—be a better man”
I laughed ‘til the whisky turned to spit
Folded your words, bit by bit

Oh, I'm just a December fool
Counting time by the logs I burn
Talkin’ to God like a lonesome mule
Never sure what I’m s’posed to learn
And you, you had July in your bones
Now I’m frostbit and throwin' stones

The pond's gone solid, like your goodbye
Crows fight over nothin’ under a gunmetal sky
Your blue scarf’s still hangin’ on that fence
Like it’s waitin' for me to make some sense

Oh,  I'm just a December fool
Sharpenin' grief on a pocketknife
Built a chapel outta rusted tools
Prayin’ for the worst days of my life
And you, you had heat in your hands
And I just sink like boots in the land

You said, “Don’t rot in the place we met”
But I carved our names in the creek bed yet
And the flood came down like a sermon’s slap
Took our mark, but never brought you back

Oh,  I'm just a December fool
Made my bed where the cold wind stings
Runnin’ on hope like an old barstool
With a prayer that don’t mean a thing
And you, you are thunder in spring
I’m just talkin’ to bones and things

If love was a season, I missed the bloom
Still talkin' to ghosts in an empty room
I'm just a December fool
A fumblin' hand with a dulled-out tool

Winter rushes through the rusted screen,
Pine smoke clings where your coat had been

December Fool

Don’t Dim

I am spirit
As I breathe
I feel the wind
Move through me
From my bones
To my muscles
A movement of
My soul
Sailing through
Each breath 
A conversation 
To my soul
Experiencing life
Through me
The knowledge
Of me
Perceiving
A spirit pumping
In my veins
Reaching with 
my bones
Alive in 
my nervous system
Linking with 
my tendons
Hearing with
 my mind
I am spirit
Moving through time
Free to exist
Inside my mind
From breath to breath
Accepting 
What’s next
The effects of
What corrects
As the world reflects
A vision being blessed
A mind set on it quest
To reassess
The correction of 
A perception
Transgressed
I am spirit

Immerfort

Herbert Grönemeyer

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