Autumn Nights

As the days start to shrink

How the memories roll,

They burn through the mind

Like a lump of lit coal.

When the sun, it sinks down,

And the darkness draws near,

The crackling flames

Are the main things I hear.

In the red smokey glow,

In the deep of the night,

I walk through the ash

Of a million old fights.

The last fires, they burn,

Amid embers of old,

And through them I drift

Searching for bits of soul.

As the night wraps me up

In a moonless embrace,

A shroud of abyss,

It slips over my face.

As the world fades away,

And I fade away too,

The knots deep inside,

They begin to undo.

No more games of pretend,

No more masks to try on,

They’re all stripped away

One by one ’till they’re gone.

Now the night calls me close,

The void whispers “come here,

For in my embrace

There is nothing to fear.”

I dive deep into black,

Let it wash me away,

And now it’s all gone,

No more pleasure or pain.

9/18/25