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Somewhere outside yet another leaf dies

And falls softly to the ground

As a reminder to the world

That all life comes to an end

With a beauty few can deny.

These almost autumn leaves

Hide from me the grass underneath

As I try to uncover the secrets of a world

That remains to be you

Huddling tightly into a ball

Somewhere in the corner of your room

Hiding from me all that is you

And what you truly are.

These almost autumn leaves

Tell me a tale of your life

Happy and sad

Flowing and flying all over the world

In such erratic patterns

That befits your life

Jumping from breeze to breeze

As you jump from thought to thought

Loving and learning

That love's just a pain in the heart

But you love anyway

Because to not love

Would be the unthinkable

The unimagineable

Where these almost autumn leaves no longer fall

In pretty shades of red and orange and yellow

Where your soul has been closed off to a world

That seems to only want to hurt you

When all it wants is to love you.

I breathe in the air of these almost autumn leaves

Like I breathed in the scent of your hair

Longing to be able to breathe deeper

And take in more of the essence

That seems to be keeping me alive

In some perverse manner -

Breaking my heart along the way.



August 7, 2003