Sadness

Arriving without notice

A blanket soon enshrouds

Draws in on itself, recluse,

From noise, the light, and crowds

Sun shifts its position

Memories follow; footsteps

Walking ’cross the muddied soil

Where darkened clouds are windswept

Flowers wilt; slow motion

Fragile, the heart beats

And seizes in the frost

Lost of color like the leaves

Music fades away

Heart strings; some flat, some

broken

Quiet soon ensues

Feeble words are seldom spoken

Parting in its time

The soul changes its season

Melting like the snow

All that’s hardened from the freezing

The weight, for now, has lifted

Seeping deep into heart’s urn

Some, evaporating

In the storms, will soon return