I Would Go

 I HAVE ALWAYS SAID I WOULD GO
                     by Glenn Ward Dresbach (1889-1968)

 I have always said I would go sometime in the autumn
Away from the bare boughs and the fallen leaves...

 Away from the lonely sounds and the faded colours...

 And all the ancient sorrow, and change that grieves.

 I have always said I would go, and now it's autumn

 To an island where the wild hibiscus grows

 And parakeets flock to the groves at twilight,

and fragrance drifts from bays where moonlight glows.

 But there would be the vast sound of breakers

 Come in to toss their pearls upon the sand.

 "The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions...a kind look, a heartfelt compliment, and the countless infinitesimals of pleasurable and genial feeling..." Coleridge

 All thru the night...a longing of great waters

 Trying to make the vastness understand.

 I have always said I would go sometime in the autumn

  Away from the lonely sounds and change that grieves....

 But here in my heart is the sound of a distant ocean

 And here in my heart is the sound of these falling leaves.

 "I have always said I would go" by G.Ward Dresbach from 1000 beautiful Things collection 1948

Photographs 2018