By twinkle
Date: 2002 Oct 08
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thoughts on fading time.

i cannot return to you, buried in the hills.
your autumn holds the dusk in colors,
breathing out the hours-

the wind of an long unfolding winter
(once sweet fire upon my cheeks)
fast fading

you know me.
who i was is written on your soil and in the
old november months;
i am shattered in your backroads
broken in your arms

in nothing and everything you so vibrant
reappear-
your dropping years fall in the small things i have forgotten so
easily; and in the coolness
i have my secret pains-

the races were quick and cold and lovely
the nights burned away by the fire, and
i was comforted
even in the rain

old loves and lost loves
deeper sadness and quiet terrible hours
leave me be,
sixteen.