Monday, November 9, 2020

loser

The leaves ignore the season, 

dying in brown bouquets

bunched in the fists of branches,

waving at the restless empty 

heaven always was, waving wild at

the clock watching sun.

Trees seeing with their

inward eyes smooth blue skies to

drowse below as you settle

between soil and sun,

vigilant limbs in fitful meditation 

the world in how it’s taken.

It all goes away, the luck

dries up and the roads 

all end up dead. The steady

chill enters the bones joint by

joint, the marrow grows 

mournful and coarse, these mortal

hours always counted down,

the fall comes faster and faster,

brittle broken branches

make way for fresh chances and

unborn buds yet to be while

time and love pare away the possible

watching everything as it goes away

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