The autumn sun catches on the golden309Please respect copyright.PENANAQZY1dQMPr2
strands of her hair, and my heart309Please respect copyright.PENANAzgBF3T3rwY
breaks a little bit.
She looks at me, eyes the color309Please respect copyright.PENANAJHfnrfUlqM
of summer foliage, and I break309Please respect copyright.PENANAvjZCUT3lgT
even more.
I can feel her touch, like ice309Please respect copyright.PENANApCznDZLiZf
on my arm, and I try to regain309Please respect copyright.PENANAgkSJi6Pmpn
control of my breathing.
Sorrow stains her face, like rain, as she lifts309Please respect copyright.PENANAxirsI0MxXs
her mouth towards me, placing a kiss309Please respect copyright.PENANAmdoBOHPZ10
softly on my cheek.
"I'm sorry," she says. "All I want309Please respect copyright.PENANAM34cSEYEwt
is one more day." She always tells309Please respect copyright.PENANApwnIeIiqZo
me this. Just one more day.
But time has never been in our favor,309Please respect copyright.PENANARshky7WCpA
and yet we find ourselves 309Please respect copyright.PENANARTQV44r1kH
trying to evade the inevitable.
"Just one more day."
The autumn leaves fall around us,309Please respect copyright.PENANA2Zt7tUOErH
a rainfall of colors, red, orange,309Please respect copyright.PENANAiJIdlZyWfR
yellow. I inhale slowly.
Her breath ghosts across my neck --309Please respect copyright.PENANAO7x6kGVXbR
"just one more day" -- and I wonder309Please respect copyright.PENANAMJp53XKADq
why it has to be this way.
I cautiously touch her cheek -- her skin309Please respect copyright.PENANABUKAE0ft8M
is colder than death -- and I wonder309Please respect copyright.PENANAJllRg313w8
why we can’t have forever.
One more day isn’t enough any more,309Please respect copyright.PENANA9PkJQ8Xa98
but I know time has finally 309Please respect copyright.PENANAfNJICS60MC
caught up with us.
She smiles, just a wisp of her lips,309Please respect copyright.PENANAWTPnkkGHII
and we lay down in the heap309Please respect copyright.PENANAxT6mVJQFCk
of colorful autumn foliage.
“Let’s be together again some day,”309Please respect copyright.PENANAP5MkotxHKb
she tells me, and I die just a little309Please respect copyright.PENANAfPemQYn2lW
more inside.
“Promise me,” she says. “that you’ll love309Please respect copyright.PENANAlszh8LPXFz
me even when I’m gone.” I tell her that, 309Please respect copyright.PENANAC3D4p9sIFz
of course, I’ll always love her.
From now until forever.309Please respect copyright.PENANAidpwlc674f
Forevermore.