Auden Revisited

Rub out the rainbows

Pack away every cloud

Til’ blue meets black

Sound the weeping cellos

In the ache of never more

Call for the trumpets

To blow out

Our forever.

Dress every ocean

In heaving hearts.

Close the rosebuds

Tight and

Roll up the music

With a gold ribbon.

He was our North

South, East and West.

Our breakfast

Our Feast

Our song.

Oh that he would last

Forever

We did long.

lady bird -

Fly away now.

Lucky we are not

In loss.

Block out the sun

Farewell the moon

A sailing by

Still the dancing wood
Silence the wind 

For none of this will ever

Come to any good.