…are falling again

How many days love?
how many seasons shall pass?

the rivers still flow
sun rises and the night falls

I sense your presence
and feel your breath on my skin

your eyes still haunt me
the leaves are falling again

another ending
cold winds scatter them afar

these sorrowful days
but they tumble together

resisting the flow
these autumn days pain me love

I stand ’til light fades
follow each leaf as it falls

then one finds its mate
they rush tangled together

into the darkness
my heart leaps I shed a tear
I walk away in silence
© Ann Bagnall