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Luminous tears

In my weary dreams

My soul was ravaged

Torn to shreds but I’m still alive

With the shadow nesting

Inside my heart

I’ll rebuild myself from the fragments

And never look back

Leafless branches

Dead fingers of the trees

Monuments of silence

Of blackening autumn

Lingering in the dusk

Glazed with rust

A poison ivy blooming

To decorate the hibernation

The secrets in the night

Refl ections full of mysteries

The equinox approaching

To illustrate the termination

A fire burns through the stillness

Over the gray meadows

Where the copper rays

Escape behind the trees

A deathbed of moss

My inevitable death

The cracking black ice

The coal in my eyes

The foliage adorning the woods

Embracing the shadows

Covered with glimmering frost

With falling leaves

Memories buried

One by one

Until solar descension

Abscission

Preparing for the winter

Breathing slowly

As I fall into the dormancy