It was an autumn day

 and it was cold,

 the autumn in the yard,

 the thunderstorm was arguing with rain,

 the leaves were falling down to the ground,

 someone's soul sat quietly under the bench.

 It shivered with cold and it was wet.

 The words of its owner it remembered,

 it could not do anything but regret.

 "My soul, you prevent me from living,

 you can't stand any deceiving,

 you pain so hard, you better stay here in the yard

 as I can't stand those pains any more. What for?

 I can't live anymore like this,

 I think without you I can exist.

 My eyes are tired to cry,

 may be it's better for you to live in the sky?

 Please, leave me alone!

 I want to live on my own."

 And the soul went away in a hard rainy day.

 It rambled about the wet yard

 without finding any regard

 looking at windows and eyes

 but nobody heard its cries.

 The autumn in the yard,

 the thunderstorm was arguing with rain,

 the leaves were falling down to the ground

 and rustled under someone’s feet,

 the soul had no one to meet.

 No one heard when it cried,

 So, it has slowly died.

 Larisa R(Odessa, Ukraine)