Night Coloring

Night takes my worry off the leash
Oh, that sorry wounded beast still bites
Autumn steals the courage off of me
Like the icy fingered breeze strips the branches

And the trees so tall
Do they feel it at all
With their hard, hard skin?

Someone, oh, just tell me who to be
I will listen carefully to someone
Doubled, my mind is doubled over maps
But I've forgotten who to ask which way

And the line that you draw
Does it circle my heart
Or color it in?

Summer, and I'm a man of some repute
But will I remember you or tighten the noose that lifts me?
Darkness, I’ll keep my wonder close to me
The stars make blinded eyes to see if we’ll let them

Like a child I lie
Set my worries aside
As you take me in