I worked through the summer in my sunburnt fields

Trying to put a piece trying to put a piece together

Then you came into my life

In the middle of July in the form of bad weather

Now I'm working even harder to try to fill my larder

Although I'm so sure I'll starve

Fall's dark skies over the fields a third the size

And my stores aren't looking much better

When the forest shuts down when the first frost falls

It closes for all closes for the season

And I am not alone each beast is skin and bones

And together we're sown we're all poor eating

Although we hope our bodies will cope

We know they won't and we're so sure we will starve

Still I check my traps they're as empty as my sack

And when I head back I dine only on the reason

And now I'm waiting to die

I'm thinner each day I rise

When I think back to winters ago

When my stores were low I still found sleep easy

Then you came into my life

As the grouse took wing and the meat came freely

I hate to think about it these days

Were all those kills in vain if then this year I just starve

Where are they are they wasting away

Or keeping hunger at bay I think about it constantly

I woke to the sun under the folds

Of snow covered cold ice forming thick on my bed

Tucked under skins of the animal kins

I once took in on which my body once fed

Ensnared in fate we struggle with hope

Succumb or we cope although mostly we just starve

Shuttered in dens as the warm life ends

Under hides of friends that we made hunting last winter

And now I'm waiting to die

I'm thinner each day I rise