Comparing Seasons

Autumn leaves falling, dancing, carried by the breeze

Twirling, circling, a last goodbye to the trees

Where do they finally lay to rest?

On the ground or do they go

Gently floating downstream via the river below?

Sink or swim? The Salmon clamber upstream

To their spawning ground

A place of life or death those

Precious fish have found

Against the ebbing tide, against the river flows

The salmon find a place through waters deep and shallow

With the tide, with the flow, the leaves tumble downstream out to sea

Far from the safety of that branch upon the tree

© Andrea Coltman