Unwelcome Autumn

Opera strains, warbling and lilted
Ending and bending back in
A distance 'twixt our Sol
A most unwelcome Autumn

It was the shattering of glass
The stem of the rose
It was the breaking of order

I watch the warmth I'd known
Fade into the spaces you once were
Seeing only the shapes you'd left
And the words in between

Now comes a supple wind, a melancholy
A malady, a dying
Easing away the love I'd learned
From you

It was a sunrise, a summer's kiss
It was an ending of nothing
It was the beginning of something

And I'll miss your eyes
Your breath
You

But here is when I smile
Here is now, on the cusp of this
Here is where I greet you
Waiting