This is a wonderful piece, simply perfect. A neat work!

I love many facts about this piece, and I said facts because there are some undeniable points regarding your poem, of which opinion cannot change.

Examples ? okay,

the coherence of this piece is a fact, the well structured stanzas and the flowing inner rhyme. Meaning wise, whether the metaphors are to be liked or not, your play with words and them, was just perfect, you used words that were related to each other to either contradict each other or complete each other, like October, the green apples, winter, distance and desire, then miles and month.

You used modifiers of time, of place, you gave a beautiful back ground to support your opening stanza, and then ended it was one of my favorite words.

Here comes the opinion part, which others do have the permisssion to disagree with me on,

the poem was heartfelt and sad, there was this tone that's LONGING, a tone that's BLAMING, slight shades of ANGER, and many bites of SADDNESS. There was this ummm...you will not understand how I'm feeling tone as well, esp that you started it talking about language and codes, as if deep inside you are assuming that you are FED UP.

anyway, this is beautiful work, I am nominating. Well done

yes and this was my favorite part:

wishing you were easier to be
next to- something like being whispered
onto your honeyed leaves and not
crawling under change?

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ofcourse along with the way you ended it.
Hats off.