A Sonnet for my Deceased Autumn's Lover

♦ Sadie Barandes ♦

Night’s stifling spell can’t compete with his eyes,

Nor can my words in their former glory.

His smile awakens the sleepiest skies,

And his voice, it tells an unsung story.

I’m lost in wisteria when he's near,

Memories of him such beckoning blurs.

Beautiful autumn and lonely a year,

I may be touched, but his touch is all hers.

Autumn has passed, no wisteria grows;

He's gone off, eloped with his winter jewel.

She's tall, dark, and handsome, and so it goes,

That my betrothed is the reaper so cruel.

One kiss from him and I’m freed from my fate,

So in my glass sepulcher I shall wait.