Now Silent


The world
is now silent
with the wind
having long ago
exhaled its last breath
and the complicated beauty
of the season’s colors
graceful fall
have melded into emptiness
as they lie
one
upon another
upon another
dying

I close my eyes
and feel
the wind I cannot hear
its bitterness
its breath
is still cold
like an overcast
that has painted my thoughts
a dull gray of monotonous pain
as I sit
in this loneliness
waiting
and indulging
in a perpetual rain
that falls from my soul’s ache

Beautiful..