Ode to Autumn

Fall into Fall
The warm net of oranges and browns
Embrace
Eyes filled with colour
While greys bring up mists of fantasy
Spreading across the great plane sky
Clouds
Drift along
Plans made in nights grown
Longer
Darker
Colder
I've begun to wear my night gown again
Fattening darkness for winter feast
"At least I'm not going bald"
Said the evergreen
Feeling envy for the colour that surrounds
The sounds and smells of leaves on the ground
RESOUND
Nostrils catch odors of decay
Sweet rotting stench
Leaves spent pass along into the firmament
Swirling in the breeze
I envy their ease
Trees wave goodbye to their short lived friends
They pretend not to mind us seeing them naked
They shiver in the cold breeze
I zip my coat
I lower my hat
And walk along
Welcome
To autumn