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There’s a suitcase in the hall.
And emptiness will soon occupy it.
Something which kept me immobile,
quite undecided to test the wind
or its aged leafless trees outside
where the silent pavement beckons
and my own shadow as a companion.
How should I, in the permanence of seasons
would not be keen to grasp the clues
that promises were never made to last?
I thought I could be strong enough.
I thought I would not have a glimpse
of that leathery box which collected
my yesterday’s dust of missed chances
that dried up in the passing of years.
I thought I could forget the barrenness
of autumn’s leaving another space
which I tried to fill with the leaves of days.
Un-withered, but soon became faded letters
that I will be keeping in this humble suitcase.
Memories of old coming back to me now.
I will turn the knob to open another door,
and walk into another painful journey
of beginnings. Never ending days catching
the falling leaves as remnants of moments.
And when the falling snow in the winter comes
and rest on the branches of those leafless trees,
like the way I carry the weight of my suitcase.
I will try picking up the pieces again and slowly
survive another night without the moon nor the stars.
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