Every Season

Every Season - Nichole Nordeman

Every evening sky

An invitation

To trace the pattern stars

And early in july

A celebration

For freedom that is ours

And I notice you

In childrens games

In those who watched them from the shade

Every drop of sun is full of fun and wonder

You are summer

And even when the trees

Have just surrender

To the harvest time

Forfeiting their leaves

In mid september

And sending us inside

Still I notice you when change begins

And I am braced for colder winds

I will offer thanks for what has been and what's to come

You are autumn

And every thing in time

And under heaven

Finally falls asleep

Wrapped in blankets white

All creation

Shivers underneath

And still I notice you when branches crack

And in my breath on frosted glass

Even now in death you open doors for life to enter

You are winter

And every thing that's new

Has greatly surfaced

Teaching us to breath

And what was frozen through

Is newly purposed

Turning all things green

So it ends with you

And how you make me move

With every seasons change

And so it will be as it outta be

Creating me

Summer autumn winter spring