Rhyme Time Iii - Winter

WINTER Winter creeps across the landscape unfurls a blackness – an ivory drape across horizon’s denied a shape. Crystal eyes devoid of sight Entombed within a soundless night beneath the chill of withering blight mourned by shivering candlelight failing flicker - last hope mislaid Aghast under pale moon’s charade the howl-less drone of wolves abrade the roots of its façade decayed resist no more the frosts of fate Tolling bells of long set date the hands of time can’t abrogate nor hasten time to shorten wait Thus destiny extends her hand Harsh guide across a barren land erasing all that life had planned not a request – a last demand Winter creeps across the landscape. ©12/5/2017 submitted to – Rhyme Time III – Poetry Contest