Autumn Run

Yellow orange a few leaves on the floor

Yellow orange falling down

Yellow orange crunch

Easy run today

Easy run, easy breathing

Time standing still, passing Chatsworth

Looping round onto the Monsal Trail

Back onto the White Peak Trail

Not gonna overdo it, just listen

Just breathe and then a steaming bowl

Of apple crumble with double cream

When I get home, home, treat myself

Running through the golf course

Running into Bakewell town

Running, always running on

Trail washed away

Trail slippery, rocks beneath

Trail enters Bakewell just above

Just above the station there

Loop down, over trail

Right turn, straight through the station

Back up under the old bridge

Like threading a needle through

Threading through onto Monsal Trail

Onto the trail again

Towards Darley Dale now

Now the rain is falling still

Still raining, still running

Still moving through the puddles

Stop for a bit, puddles building

Building up along the trail

The trail runs out towards the end

A blocked off tunnel, shoot off right

Back left under the old bridge

Cross country piece of trail, that’ll take me up

Up where I started from

From Rowsley hit the White Peak trail

Follow the train track back down

Back down to Darley Dale again

Back down, back down again

This Monsal trail, so important

So important during lockdown days

We used to come

All the time with the buggy running

Pushing Luca along the path

With Harry and Ami running

Running alongside us always

Honestly, without that trail

Without that trail I’m not sure

What we would have done

To keep ourselves sane

Stretch now

Tired legs at the top

Back at the top of the hill

Overlooking Derwent Valley

Down to Rowsley in the distance

Still raining, always raining

Apparently there’s an Alsatian

On the loose somewhere near

Just past the blackest mushrooms

Darkest mushrooms I’ve ever seen

Blackest, darkest mushrooms growing

Under a hawthorn bush they stand

Tall stems and dark black heads

And lines and little bunches

Shiny tops under the rain

Light glinting off them strangely

Dark, dark black or dark brown

Amazing mushrooms in the rain

Yellow orange a few leaves falling

Still raining on the trail

Still running through the valley

Still