Unspoken

I don't know why it came to me
Such a gorgeous setting sun
summer wind
a caring eye
I thought to pause and thank someone
I thought to say good-bye

I didn't say why down the road
I saw a silent djinn of dust
summer wind
a calling voice
I didn't speak my heart or trust
Put words around my choice

I hadn't thought that down the lane
Such a trusting hand to hold
summer wind
flowing hair
Should not have been so quiet cold
Should not have left her there

And yet I thought to say good-bye
and still I haven't said it yet
summer wind
reflecting tear
Burdened by that willful debt
I owe to one so dear

Farther down the sunset road
from one I left so long ago
summer wind
a looming moon
do not dwell on what I owe
it will be paid off soon