Bloem - November

NOVEMBER

It’s raining and it is November:

Autumn lays siege now to the heart

That sadly, though more wont than ever,

Endures its secret pains apart.

And in the room, where resignation

Sees daily life pass as it may,

From streets that speak of desolation

A bleak light falls at close of day.

The years pass by but never alter,

The difference will soon be gone

Between dim memories that falter

And what is lived and is to come.

Lost are the ways I knew of gaining

Release from time in earlier days;

Always November, always raining,
Always this empty heart, always.