You Always Leave...me to November

 PAD challenge day 1: write a stay/leave poem/poems

To know joy

Is to know grief

You always leave

An echo-land

Of fallen leaf

And lemonade reprieve

While, on the fringe

Of what once was

Waits what will be

The loss of you

Sweeter because

Of words like ‘we’

You always leave

Futile to grieve

Your stricken form

The corpse of summer

Lies in leaves

Of echo-storm

The aster

Cannot master

More than you or I

The wraith-like Chief

That scatters leaf

Beneath the sky

© Janet Martin