I could read many things into this.

But I'm just gonna say it's lovely in its way

Craig

Congratulations on your win! The rhyming here is really subtle and clever.

‘don’t let the reflection
on the mirror fool you IT IS a hallucination.’

I feel is a little awkward. Should it be ‘that it’s’ or ‘fool you. It’s’ or ‘fool you, for it’s’?

To be honest, I’ve no idea what this is about. I got the impression it’s about letting go of love, but almost as if the narrator is ‘letting go’ themselves, and seems content in its death.

Well written :)

Well done on this, STAR - a well deserved win indeed.

Take care

I LOVE the gentleness that your voice has in this, and the reminder that letting go doesn't always mean we lose everything. We can gain ourselves back from whatever we anchored ourselves to. At first, I thought this was about the passing of seasons, that "flowery incense" resembled spring. I also saw it as winter reassuring itself that memories don't always have to be "cold and heavy", and that moving on and accepting the passage of time would grant it freedom. But I also liked where others went with this poem, a love that must move on because remembering and even wishing to be taken back in time would only weigh this person down more.