The autumn sun catches on the golden302Please respect copyright.PENANA0kvYHYypGx
strands of her hair, and my heart302Please respect copyright.PENANApq33zbHVxO
breaks a little bit.
She looks at me, eyes the color302Please respect copyright.PENANAG3Dh4RCxAb
of summer foliage, and I break302Please respect copyright.PENANA5WrscWIh80
even more.
I can feel her touch, like ice302Please respect copyright.PENANAlSAryBrAYf
on my arm, and I try to regain302Please respect copyright.PENANAqZ06tySxDW
control of my breathing.
Sorrow stains her face, like rain, as she lifts302Please respect copyright.PENANAaEYSzU2dfm
her mouth towards me, placing a kiss302Please respect copyright.PENANAAWvogISCCU
softly on my cheek.
"I'm sorry," she says. "All I want302Please respect copyright.PENANAOc8pmO1Dyh
is one more day." She always tells302Please respect copyright.PENANApqtbAU6enR
me this. Just one more day.
But time has never been in our favor,302Please respect copyright.PENANAEE0pwcVo40
and yet we find ourselves 302Please respect copyright.PENANAt6eMqoTszv
trying to evade the inevitable.
"Just one more day."
The autumn leaves fall around us,302Please respect copyright.PENANARQl5SgqLTh
a rainfall of colors, red, orange,302Please respect copyright.PENANAg5IVKcZ3Pp
yellow. I inhale slowly.
Her breath ghosts across my neck --302Please respect copyright.PENANAeXUCLLchwq
"just one more day" -- and I wonder302Please respect copyright.PENANAkPwUxLDMTp
why it has to be this way.
I cautiously touch her cheek -- her skin302Please respect copyright.PENANAsX4TRxfw5i
is colder than death -- and I wonder302Please respect copyright.PENANACQlUlj6sHc
why we can’t have forever.
One more day isn’t enough any more,302Please respect copyright.PENANAYCkpG3BxLz
but I know time has finally 302Please respect copyright.PENANA7KVxza2QId
caught up with us.
She smiles, just a wisp of her lips,302Please respect copyright.PENANAgbcHmDnjKG
and we lay down in the heap302Please respect copyright.PENANAeTGUqKzALX
of colorful autumn foliage.
“Let’s be together again some day,”302Please respect copyright.PENANAztSkkDcYxY
she tells me, and I die just a little302Please respect copyright.PENANAzjMVyQsfXw
more inside.
“Promise me,” she says. “that you’ll love302Please respect copyright.PENANAtkxmYhPGQJ
me even when I’m gone.” I tell her that, 302Please respect copyright.PENANAZJh9MbSPBM
of course, I’ll always love her.
From now until forever.302Please respect copyright.PENANAjnMDSOZRvS
Forevermore.