This is incredibly written Richard...the madenning duality of comfort and pain, life and death, love and bitterness is very much imbedded in our experience of the seasons...so very poignant, with each moment of change comes a taste of the light as well as the darkness. I felt the most touched by this line, "I am only alive When the summer is over" - that thin line between the end of summer and the beginning of the next season's change...it signifies to me the VERY MOMENT...the only moment when true LIFE is possible...the one moment that is eternal in its BEING. You found the hidden door between past and future and turned this moment into an eternal LIFETIME. That's how I saw it. Wonderful piece!