Deciduous

Deciduous 9-9-24 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Deciduous Artic flares beat upon my dark cocoon I come in silence to hide from the dark To bind my wounds with sunlit afternoons Wrapping my pain with loneliness, so stark, In isolation like a sinful moon Spinning silken petals, a newborn ark Whiplashed by regret’s compulsive rune And bear the weight of fear - forever marked. From a single thread my world hangs upside down, A maze of anguish, labyrinth of tears, Fluttering in restless desolation, When a song of grace like softest eiderdown Peels away each petal from nascent spheres To fall away from a new creation.