Autumn Fire

Smouldering a dissipating fever The sunset held our hearts just above the horizon The hot stream of love’s dying blaze A haze risen at sundown to ask the nightly question An icy breeze carries inland to the beach It finds me patiently waiting on her love in a shiver The leaves and sand wish-wash like waves In the echoes of the splatter of the fading memory of summer Outside our fountain of love I crumble I would be a bouquet wilting in another’s forgettable cold hands I lay beneath the frozen stars on your lawn Stargazing as you transform through the window of a season Twilight prying in romantic moonlight Silhouettes whisper a golden glow of the autumn campfire 27-10-2016 AUTUMN FIRE - Poetry Contest Sponsored by: Mystic Rose