Autumn's Mourning

6th poem in the album Plea from the Dark, written 5/6/14.

Red leaves.

The barren trees.

A lost cause.

A forsaken land.

 

Time and time again

Nature repeats itself.

We bud and blossom,

And then we die.

 

We believe in our hearts

That what we accomplish has meaning.

Yet in the end disappointment lies.

 

Can it really be true

That we labor and toil for nothing?

Autumn strips our leaves,

And Winter gives us her cold embrace.

 

Even as a sapling

We were doomed to this hollow life.

This futile cycle cannot last forever.

 

When our hope runs dry

And our roots turn to stone

Our only solace is in each other.

 

We can’t endure much longer.

I long for the fading sun.

Let it be finished.

End our misery.