So she picked herself up from her life's shattered ruin Afraid and ashamed, brought her pain and past to him. "I'm sorry!" he said "but it's none of my doing! Oh no more - on this long summer night!" And he left her there - left her begging and pleading and that was the night that her soul started bleeding... She prayed to the Heavens but no God was heeding. Through the heat of that long summer night... And that was the first time she drove to the edges of cliffs... and looked down upon cold, jagged ledges... "Farewell!" cried a voice through the trees and the hedges through the heat of that long summer night. "We'll show you the way" said the old lighthouse beaming... "We'll cover your cries" said the gulls "with our screaming" "And we'll break your body and set you to dreaming"...... cried the rocks on that long summer night.... In despair she cried out "If I must walk alone... cursed be that life I held dear as my own and damned be his soul!" and she sank to the stones... and wept through the long summer night... She wept until dawn and the sun saw her weeping. He hid his bright face and the storm clouds came creeping... Rain washed the place where the lady lay sleeping at the end of the long summer night... She laughed as she left them that day, I am told and the sound of her laughter turned everyone cold. She'd grown suddenly, heartlessly, hopelessly old in the heat of that long summer night... Introduction     Back     Continue......