Alice Kriel - Autumn Affection

The beauty of slow decay
and the fragrance of dust-coated roses
Brittle leaves falling to the ground
leave the slumbering tree starkly bare
There’s a dark luminescence where you lay
and you opened what usually closes
Your silence is the only sound
as I wait for the love you can spare

Alice Kriel

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