AUTUMN - THE LAST DANCE

 

Like the candle burns bright just before it dies
One last flash hoping to regain its dimming light
Leaves too perform a last dance
And herald a new season with flamboyance

Winds remind them of colder days to come
Gently coaxing so they willingly succumb
And let go of mothering branches that held them so
That saw them bud, that saw them grow

Defiance takes the reigns, time to take over the show
The gentle, the shy leaf to exist no more
No more to be the same, to be so uniform
Time to bring out the self, to just perform

Out come the reds, out come the maroons,
Like the butterfly springing from the cocoon
No time to stay in the shade
They even wear gold for this parade

Everywhere you look, colour abounds
It makes you gasp it makes you turn around
The show is on, watch this one before it goes
This is their last dance in death’s throes

Fallen they lie in their thousands
At the feet of the silent giants
Their red colour taints the dark earth
Their death prophesises a new birth