Lost in hollow reflection

 Amongst the fallen leaves

  Till thought and time merge

   Within a sodden autumn day

    To deliver me always to spring

I will not seek comfort or hope

 Within a living wall of growth

  That I engendered and nurtured

   Till it grows beyond my span

    Changing future landscapes forever

I will wander today; till the light fails

 Then I shall sleep away the day in peace

  In a world that delivered me here now

   With naught but the breath of the autumn

    To wrap up this failing skin within

I will make of the day a lifetime

 For tomorrow may never come again

  For we are so many and we fail

   We do not endure nor transform

    But we create and we may love

I will make of my lifetime a wonder

 But I shall fail and then I will sleep

  And take away forever all my thoughts

   To my little new world of eccentricity

   Into the long, cold days of skyfall