We share all these disappointments of failing <br />autumn a thousand miles apart. This is where <br /> <br />autumn wind easily plunders courtyard trees, <br />but the sorrows of distance never scatter away. <br /> <br />Swallow shadows shake out homeward wings. <br />Orchid scents thin, drifting from old thickets. <br /> <br />These lovely seasons and fragrant years falling <br />lonely away— we share such emptiness here.<br /><br />Bai Juyi<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/autumn-thoughts-sent-far-away/
