The autumn sun catches on the golden202Please respect copyright.PENANAZwFDGp7kQB
strands of her hair, and my heart202Please respect copyright.PENANAJYLGBDN1bK
breaks a little bit.
She looks at me, eyes the color202Please respect copyright.PENANAVlVLxanH6C
of summer foliage, and I break202Please respect copyright.PENANAIJVnadJ91y
even more.
I can feel her touch, like ice202Please respect copyright.PENANApkzaJz6Fxp
on my arm, and I try to regain202Please respect copyright.PENANA4aBQ2WCPiN
control of my breathing.
Sorrow stains her face, like rain, as she lifts202Please respect copyright.PENANAs4LzcpSXUI
her mouth towards me, placing a kiss202Please respect copyright.PENANATuXVNWn5Dx
softly on my cheek.
"I'm sorry," she says. "All I want202Please respect copyright.PENANAQP773ZezEG
is one more day." She always tells202Please respect copyright.PENANAb3ASpdEn1b
me this. Just one more day.
But time has never been in our favor,202Please respect copyright.PENANApASH8aygTw
and yet we find ourselves 202Please respect copyright.PENANAT8tzWukPqD
trying to evade the inevitable.
"Just one more day."
The autumn leaves fall around us,202Please respect copyright.PENANAnKxBZd20Ke
a rainfall of colors, red, orange,202Please respect copyright.PENANAhsYrjRP3iQ
yellow. I inhale slowly.
Her breath ghosts across my neck --202Please respect copyright.PENANAAIqvC3DYzG
"just one more day" -- and I wonder202Please respect copyright.PENANAwzdGKsnuef
why it has to be this way.
I cautiously touch her cheek -- her skin202Please respect copyright.PENANA3CKdBccH8l
is colder than death -- and I wonder202Please respect copyright.PENANA5zwFmyHD8K
why we can’t have forever.
One more day isn’t enough any more,202Please respect copyright.PENANAnrnzzMrz7d
but I know time has finally 202Please respect copyright.PENANAC4KyrjkiTQ
caught up with us.
She smiles, just a wisp of her lips,202Please respect copyright.PENANAb3q6B3FmDX
and we lay down in the heap202Please respect copyright.PENANAegvWClW9v4
of colorful autumn foliage.
“Let’s be together again some day,”202Please respect copyright.PENANAgcxGw6BreY
she tells me, and I die just a little202Please respect copyright.PENANAkl09neCTWX
more inside.
“Promise me,” she says. “that you’ll love202Please respect copyright.PENANA0GX4C6UrsI
me even when I’m gone.” I tell her that, 202Please respect copyright.PENANALrFXtWvBNP
of course, I’ll always love her.
From now until forever.202Please respect copyright.PENANAPWegzIiVA1
Forevermore.