Ming Zhu and The Pearl that Shines

Chapter Nine - Autumn Peony

The autumn comes, oh the wind is cold.

My petals wilt with summer's leaving.

Where are you while I wait for

The flight of cranes and the river's song?

Peonies only last for a while,

A whisper of time, a moment in the sun.

Oh while the wind blows,

I shiver at your leaving.

Oh the cruel cut of the gardener's blade,

Do I cry at the pain of farewell?

Again, I wait, curling in,

While you walk from afar?

~*~

Where she slept, the half-moon looked like a luminous dragon's eye. Autumnal lightning lit the clouds in the sky.