Deciduous

I sit alone
splitting my time between reading and watching the leaves
f
l
o
a
t

d
o
w
n

from their perches
on the maple trees around me

Spinning

Graceful

Dizzy

around me
looking like a death scene in a ballet.

I wonder if there isn't some parallel
betwixt these beautifully depressed leaves
and my own life.

I am feeling the Fall.
All of my once tender and callous
decorations letting go-
Fleeing the only home they have ever known
for the beauty of the Fall,
for a few stunning seconds of freedom,
to float like tender music in the cool breeze.

Elegance and Poise

Exquisitely, and slowly,
drifting downward
until their delicate dancing flight is over
and some uncouth individual
(like myself)
stamps their feet on them-
crushing their efforts
while ignorantly passing though.