This is a heartbreaking write Theodore, you convey the emotions so very well - you paint them starkly for the reader and create the atmosphere perfectly. What I really enjoyed was how you wove beauty into the pain:

'I feel trapped

in the empty space

behind a falling star.'

'Chill gusts of wind yank

burnt orange and burgundy

from autumn trees'

and my favourite:

'a breeze, bordering on silence,

caresses the top of pines,

the gentle swish of a drum brush

sweeping across the head'

Thank you for sharing this with us here at Move Me!