Scratches On My Gravestone

| Forcing A Frozen Farewell |

Hazy heavens descend,
floating downward,
fluttering, dropping,
gracefully, in winter white

Beneath silent streetlamps,
the foggy incandescence
showers all, covers all
in dim loneliness

Reaching, extending out,
feeling the frigidity,
breathing in bleakness
through clenched teeth

Forcing
frozen
fingertips

I welcome November

Autumn is fleeting,
the shorter sunlit days
collect themselves,
build up inside my chest

If only one's mistakes,
like fragile, frosty flakes,
could quickly melt away,
on warm skin, disintegrate

Forcing
frozen
frame

I exhale November

Still, the weather remains,
oh, to count the ways
this dreadful darkness
damns my holidays

Forcing
frozen
footsteps

I forsake November