OH DEAR OCTOBER

Oh, dear October,when autumn’s breath delivered meboth beauty and beast,you taught me to love,

Carefree and wild,like the winds tormenting cherry blossoms.

You held me with grace,and I melted at winter’s first crack of ice.You brewed me a love,and I drank the poison of a thousand years.

You commanded the game,and I spun the Russian roulette without thought.You whispered forever,and I clung to each promiseuntil the last leaf fell,

its thud louder than truth.

The world you painted with beautyhas now rotted beneath the willow treewhere I weep, hope, bleedfor one moment of relieffrom the winter you broughtto my heat-stroked August.

Oh dear October,how you have scammed me of a grace once true,of a love once beautiful,of a beast once precious.

And now all I can do is hopethat your heart remembers meand in my tides of forever silenced tears,you might find meworthy of your affection again.

~Ndiba Kellen~