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Autumn Tears
Beautiful and still
Corrupted, unfulfilled
She stares out the windowsill
Such little joy
Can be seen in those ebony eyes
Such little pride can be seen
Through her weaving maze of lies
Such time wasting on silly things
Oh but we love her
That precious porcelain doll
Don’t drop her; she quite can’t grasp a fall
Oh but she’s quite real and unique
Pains in her heart begin to twinge
Because she remembers, she never stops thinking of him
She wonders her way out of the house
Her prison, feeling overwhelmed, a new freedom
Baby steps are taken
Curious eyes look all about
Thinking thoughts she shouldn’t be allowed
Auburn hair flowing gently in the breeze
The cold pinching the color in her cheeks
Forgetting all of her haunting sins
Towering trees stand high above
Colors, colors gleaming in sight
Red, yellow, orange and green
The leaves they fall
And tantalize her curiosity it seems
They stir around her body
A few tangled in her hair
A weak smile begins to bite at her frown
And for once her head is held up high
Not submitted to the ground.
An eerie sound breaks the serenity
A raven screeching at her insanity
Thus in fright, she runs without thinking
That a silly bird could cause such guilt
Her white lace nightie following behind
The air getting colder, the sky getting darker
Nothing can be seen but her glossy startled eyes
Nothing can be heard but the raven’s taunting cries
Tripping over twigs, her nightie getting caught
She tumbles down, scraping her knees
The madness cackling inside her.
The broken heart and loss aching deep within.
Crawling on her hands and knees
Blood staining the once white gown
She feels the leaves and dirt through her fingertips
And as she looks up
Biting her lips, warm red liquid trickling down
She’s face to face with her lovers gravestone
A blood curdling scream escape her lips
Tracing the gravestone with her finger
Curling up into a ball
Another dagger to her heart
More pain she cannot try and forget
She’s lost it now
The raven perched beside her
She closes her eyes
And whispers
“Take me with you you foul creature”
The dawn rises, a new light
Her last breathe was taken
The last leaf of autumn fell upon her face
The coldness swallowed up her life in one night
Frozen in a ball, frozen autumn tears
She died, in her own illness
Forever bound to this world
apart of it and not
She waits for her lover to return, frozen to his corpse
Her howls become the winds furry
Her breath the fog
she'll never leave
and he will never return
It’s just the end
It was just her end
On that chilly autumm night
