Indiana Shaw Poet Couplet

November

The leaves near gone as branches become bare, the emptiness sets in
November is the season of death, where one feels the coldness within

Time of reflections; of your past that goes back to your childhood days
How it all played out & the lessons learned, and the wisdom it conveys

Where they can learn to heal, or decide to stay damaged, and distorted
Pity those who went on with their anguish ignored and as unsupported

Who grew to inflict their pain onto others and blame them to the cause
Not allowing the seasons to stop for death or rebirth, there is no pause

As those who allow November to stay embedded forever in their hearts
Fail not only themselves, when from their heart the pain fails to imparts

Scarring those around you with your wounds that are not theirs to share
As the lean branches remind us however bleak they will not remain bare

That they stand their loss with strength, as with reliance of a new spring
And a flurry of new leaves descend upon us as to each branch they cling

Till then November bares our souls to the winter to toughen our growth
Teaching us to bear all our hurts and pains whilst to all others we expose

That death; can only bring with it a coldness that everyone has to endure
A emptiness of abundance' that only the other seasons will on us ensure

November; being the start of the colder months that are still yet to come
Where one holds out their painful emotions, until they are all about done

Painful memories that are frozen in time lessen as the new spring arrives
As the new leaf buds push on through, & that old winter then on us dies

Harbour; not old resentments that only endeavour to mar your wellbeing
Ignoring those who are no more than just resentful of you ever achieving

Who took their own failures out on you, expecting you to carry their cross
And as for every time you carried their cross, it was you that paid the cost

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