Like Autumn Leaves

I feel friends
Fall from me
Like Autumn leaves
Leaving
My limbs and battered bark
To the ravages
Of this
Most bitter
Winter.

And you
The last
The gentlest of voices
In the darkness
That kept me
From the torments of this world
And the next.
Your departure
Has cut me
Deeper
Than you shall ever know.

Once more
I find myself
Staring in the silence
At the walls that enclose me
In this inhospitable tomb.