Autumn’s Gloaming

This is the flip side of yesterday’s poem. Unexpected Love can be read here.

Sweet summer days

filled with delights

slowly deflate

moving into the season of fall.

Trees

beautiful in crowns of gold and red

carpet crinkles beneath my feet

I listen for the sound of your step

hoping

wishing

that you would come back for me.

We had tender kisses

talked of a future

of children

of a life intertwined.

In a single heartbeat

one whispered word

I understand not still

what it was that drove us apart.

Chitter chatter

squirrel scolding

as I walk

meandering

dead leaves dissipate

under the heels of my feet

as I turn along the path

where you sought my love

where you let me fall

never looking back.

Crimson sunset

sheds diamond drops on the water

tears

no longer shed

only do I feel numb.

Nearly had a love

unconceived

rare

I held it out

only to be spurned

left alone

without even a good-bye.

©August 26/19

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