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Autumn Stranger
I knew a stranger once
a stranger like there never was,
upon a shadow and a distant sun
I chanced this shade drifting some
draping my path in apathy
shrouding our meeting within obscurity.
Sights upon the coming night
I stood beneath a warmth in flight,
embers reaching down beneath this distance
that trace my soul up from the dimness
to cast my shadow afore my steps
yearning for another star to breach the depths.
I met a stranger once
a stranger like there never was,
with eyes that held that faded star
with all it’s warmth upon my heart,
this stranger fading with the light
meets just another waning sprite,
in a passing quickened by the dusk
a sunset that weds the constellations
the dark that masks their inclinations;
and here these two stranger’s blessed
in crossing to share a shadow’s crest
coaxed by a sun in twilight’s heat
as the stars themselves they stretch to meet,
she passes me and her eyes divert
the sun has faded and the night is curt.
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