Wednesday, November 12, 2014

Arriving in November to Leave





The skies have long taken on a sad grayness

hence, the colours of autumn have turned to a drabness

and, the crisp air brings a chill that provokes the skin

awake to a heightened level of awareness.


One must walk the paths away and within

with more expedient steps as the candlelight flickers.

Noting that a sense of containment may forgo all past sin

one must still account for all that is and that may have been.


Whilst the bear may sleep away in the cave’s wickers

the sparrows nonetheless must work with a quicken beat

as winter’s grip will neither forgive nor forget the frail and the sicker;

stoke up the cinders and log the fireplace so to warm the cider liquor


For if, thy name is called, be it to a heaven’s seat

Or be it to an eternal torment laid upon an inferno’s bed,

One must relinquish to a sense of being; a celebration in total replete


As November’s melancholies are driven ghosts chased in retreat.





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