Autumn Leaf
October 21, 2020
Clinging to your familiar branch
The one you love,
Bound together in mutual nourishment
Through the seasons.
Youthful vibrance,
Your smooth green cloak conforming neatly
Replaced by a cornucopia
Of reds, yellows, and oranges. Astonishing scars of enduring
Through the seasons.
Gone are the days
Of your hopeful curious budding.
The end is nigh,
You can feel the cool Northern whispers as they
Announce the season.
Yet gently you flutter,
Basking in the morning light from an increasingly
Cloudy sky above you.
There is serenity in your countenance as if you hold
The secret of the seasons.
Slowly you let go.
Swaying softly, carried by the wind to the hardening dirt.
To lie among leaves already fallen.
Kissed by the shadow of the tree that held you, dearly,
Through the seasons.
O Autumn Leaf,
Majestic colors faded, the snow is gathering in the clouds.
You gaze once more at the sky.
Time’s warm wrinkled hands will soon lift you lovingly and
Release you from the seasons.
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