oh how you would seduce me
with your high and crystal bright blue skies
your thick air summer nights when the horizon glows and the clouds flicker
when the city hums and I feel the still warm pavement underfoot
a mile above the sea with a sea of stars close enough to touch greeting me at a tilt of my chin
how you would seduce me
you would convince me to stay
with your inviting violence in the surprising outbreaks of thunder and rain
always intermingled with sunshine
leaving the freshness of wet pavement and warm earth
all in an intoxicating assault on my senses
alas for all your enticing I am still the ever leaving one
forgive my infidelity because I also love another
another sky, another scented breeze, another skyline
with daylight which causes twilight to last for hours
of endless streams and painted nights
of comforting grey on green in the wetness of a cool morning
and of all the shades in between when the light bends just so
oh colorado how you would seduce me
convincing me to stay
enticing me to linger in the richness of a warm and welcoming semi-night
oh how torn a heart can be with love and again love as its choice of directions
and here I am divided; breathing in deep
delighted in the timid produce of the skies
intrigued by the brilliant flashings across the now open plains
forgive me, my dishonesty would run deep if I said you were my only
but this I can promise,
I will return
and your imposing peaks,
your hard rock canyons
your dry and windswept foothills
they will be to me the most comforting arms of welcome
until then
seduce me in our remaining hours
and this memory I will take with me
colorado
I will miss you
