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As promised

March 24, 2023
By lcmurrugarra107 BRONZE, Lawrence, Kansas
lcmurrugarra107 BRONZE, Lawrence, Kansas
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This is the first leaf to fall–

to lay at your feet–

as you bathe in gold.

Should you reach out

to admire the beauty

of an ever-changing hue,

it shall change once more. 

O, but shall your cordial

touch sleep rather undue?

Should it ignite a loud splendor 

in the very veins that 

embrace my red color? 

O, but shall it evoke 

a breath of warmth

in the very veins that

nourish a congenial autumn?


Or, alas! Shall the whirl 

of a kindred yearning 

act as a cold sheath

against a bitter tongue?


She, who loves,

paints the glistening

of one’s eyes into

the heart of another. She 

teaches each limb how

to dance along to the trembling

of my curvature. She

paints your heart with rich

oils, saccharine to an ailing throat. 

Amidst her autumnal gambol, 

there lies a harvested

closeness, where pigmented

petals bleed from your lips.

O, how I wish I was able 

to nurture the few 

that did kiss my chest; 

the few that did make a home

in the nape of my neck:

a fair nest for faultless

adoration. 

O,

This is the shelter sought

after by the men whose lips 

have been brushed blue by

his mothers’ solstice.

Are they aware of a new

warmth that thrives on 

the mouth of another?

O, but, alas!

How ill he must have fallen!

How his skin must have
wept for the embrace of a

temperate membrane! 

Tell him to come and hinder

the frigid bite of his winter. 

Tell him to crawl into the

appendages of his lover;

to bask in the praise

of his sweltering sun. 

But should he know that the sun 

Exists? Should he listen to the 

psalms of the clouds? 

Let him know; tell him now. 

Let not a man live, bitten

without love. 


The author's comments:

Hello! I wrote this piece one fall afternoon after going on a date on such a lovely day. I saw my date coated in the sun and immediately took a mental screenshot for inspiration for this piece. 


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