INSPIRED BY AUTUMN

Shook all cold, the wind from beside me,

The glimpse outside the bars went inside me

Seconds was I still, looking at the scene,

Beats had I skipped, listening the calm and serene.

The meadow depicted an ocean of unbearable stuff

Dropped down once and left away rough

Thoughts struck the mind, I put it to lock;

Blown by the breeze, I commenced the walk.

The jeep wheels splashed them leaves out of the lane;

Whose state finds me back the key to my brain.

Dried and dead, let to perish, hard to see,

Felled for the survival in cold by the tree.

Though wandering ‘round the heap looked funny,

It flickered in my head like an epiphany.

And kept flickering till it clicked out the lesson,

And the feeling didn’t show any sign to lessen.

Less significance in cold shed away the leaves

My downfall in a heart stood me among heaves

They kept falling like my ‘I’, ‘M’, ‘P’, ‘O’, ‘R’, ‘T’

‘A’ for me shed, and then ‘N’, ‘C’, ‘E’.

Pale, they kept falling like light flakes of snow

Inspiring me to give up and let it go.

Colder it’d gotten, the autumn bit like a sting.

Blinked, I turned back, awaiting my spring.