No Season In My Heart

by windwilowk


He stood by the tall cottonwood and watched his lover. Ezra was kneeling at her grave. He had been stoic during Maude's illness. Ezra hadn't cried a tear during her illness or burial, or in the two months since. Yet here he was at her grave, visiting it for the first time since the day of the burial.

He went in the gate and walked up to Maude's grave. Ezra looked up at his lover and offered up a wan smile. Tears were making their way down his beloved southerner's face. He knelt down behind Ezra and took a tearstained paper from his hands.

"We were never together for Mother's Day. I always gave the gift for her to whoever I was with. Now she's here and I needed to come, but I couldn't think of what to bring her, so I wrote that."

He read Ezra's words...

No Season In My Heart

Your baby and your child
So many things I need
Teaching me con games as I grew
That was the season you gave to me

Holding on and letting go
I don't want to but you must
First a teen and then a young adult
There was no season to learn to trust

It is Autumn
We travel round a bend
Still parent and child yet nothing more
It was the season I found six friends

So much more than I can count
You have taken through the years from me
I shall try to give better to you
It is the final season of your need

We'll never again walk side by side
Now and forever far apart
Endless eddies of tide and time
Have left for you no season in my heart

'But it left a man who still looked for a
mother's love to be what it should have been.'

"Aw Ezra, I wish I could give you back all the Mother's days in your life and make them just right, but I can't."

"Ah know love, though Ah appreciate the thought."

Standing up and gathering Ezra he said.

"Let's go home."

"Will you lay down with me and hold me for a while."

"Yes."

The End


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