October Rain (October 16, 2018)

Hello Darkness

My old lover

We meet

Once more.

As the Heavens

Open up

With frigid tears

On my face.

Soul cries out

For justice

So long denied

In coming.

Forgotten

What true freedom means

Against the repression

I've lived.

Voice muted

Shouting

Against the sins

You've hid behind.

Words - pale shadow

Of what they were

Not so long ago.

When I stood up

In counting myself

Among your foes.

Now

Nothing more

Than a faded memory.

Like autumn's

Fallen leaves

Filling my soulscape

With their colourful display.

As I wipe

These tainted reflections

From my soul.

Therisa © 2019  

Author's note: I started writing this, as another October storm drenched Toronto, in rain. Darkening my mood, to stay in bed today. As I worked on various poems.