April 8, 2015

Winter People

 

Discarded, written off as old
Like old clothes
Tossed aside
Out of sight and out of mind
Stone washed senior citizens
Eke away their lives
In museums and mausoleums
Under jaundiced jailers eyes

Chorus:
All the winter people
Lost and lonely face the cold
All the winter people
Winter grips and chills the soul
All the winter people
All the winter people
In their winter years

Forgotten, given no more thought
Grown children
Now strangers
No phone calls, no letters
Spoon fed with no dignity
Weighed down by their years
Age decays and eats away
Haggard faces, silent tears

Chorus:
All the winter people
Lost and lonely face the cold
All the winter people
Winter grips and chills the soul
All the winter people
All the winter people
In their winter years

Bridge:
Solemn heads bent in silent prayer
For absent friends
Dreams of salad days, of summer songs
Of times long gone
And if memories … are all that’s left them
When they’re shed like autumn leaves
What’s left then?
What’s left then?

Chorus:
All the winter people
Lost and lonely face the cold
All the winter people
Winter grips and chills the soul
All the winter people
All the winter people
In time all of us grow old
All the winter people
All the winter people
God bless them
All the winter people
God rest them
All the winter people
All the winter people
All the winter people

© Martin Robley 2014