* Written for Sanil's Challenge at firesidepoetry.com, the challenge:
Write a poem describing your favorite season..winter, spring, fall or summer..as if it were you...

I Am Fall


I am autumn’s russet hues,
Muting softly the colors in you,
The raging red and yellow leaves,
Fall from the glorious trees,

Passions of spring growth,
Fading slowly into somber moods,
Long walks soothing with twilight blues,
Damping down the passions in you…

I am fall,
And the children have flown away,
Leaving you a little sadder,
A little more gray…

But there is understanding too,
Life was not meant to be lived,
In a single day…

Now I give you time to pause,
Take inventory of the passing year,
Give you time to shed your golden tears,
Then wipe them clean again,

And start anew-