AUTUMN'S SERENADE

SERENDIPITOUSLY REFLECTED ...

 

Not staged, but found as it was and all I did was click. Mother Nature is the Artist and I am just an observer and capturer of a precious moment in time that was short-lived, but is eternal here, in my picture, preserved.

 

"I cannot endure to waste anything so precious as autumnal sunshine by staying in the house."

 

- Nathaniel Hawthorne

 

Soundtrack : www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXBNlApwh0c

AUTUMN LEAVES – EVA CASSIDY

 

I fell in love with Autumn

from an early age

looking at the trembling leaves

leafing through my favourite page

a book of wisdom given to me

on a perfect Spring day on an early birthday

devouring all it had to tell

I gained knowledge through my childhood play

skipping through the rustling leaves

tousled hair tumbling in the breeze

jumping a stile to where the grass was greener

leaving behind what I found with ease

that life is the same beyond the fence

nothing much changes; I stayed the same

wide-eyed and innocent despite the bruises

I never looked for or sought to blame

and Autumn was bright and beautiful

I escaped my life in books and Fall

and when Winter shed it's icy beauty

I waited patiently for Spring and the Cuckoo's call

I remember woolly and itchy jumpers

too big for me; hand-me-downs

my sister was twice as big as me

I was the waif and stray from an unknown realm

with stick-thin legs and mittens on strings

a little puppet to Punch like Judy

with a broken arm like a broken wing

I flew in circles so dark and distant and deeply moody

but Nature taught me that life could be good

and enthralled me with it's imparted secrets

the gifts it gave me I treasure still

and especially in Autumn I never forget

to let live; let love and tomorrow will bring

the best the days have to offer

a brilliant blue sky with scudding white clouds

and Autumn fruit trees bend down and proffer

all of their bounty for it's ours for the taking

in repayment for all our good deeds

when we care for nature and thank God for our days

our pains will ease even though we still bleed

we are never given more than we can carry

I know this from experience; it is a fact

so God thinks I'm strong, so the least I can do

is repay all His kindness and make up for all I lack

for I am not perfect; I do not profess

to be anything other than I am

but God loves the most those who try their hardest

than those who take for granted and who don't give a damn

but He still loves us all; we are his children

and so he gifts us the beautiful Fall

a time of peace and quiet reflection

a change of the seasons

where we can find reasons

to improve all our chances;

to give it our all.

 

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