Autumn's Death Returns

                The autumn's glaring sun
                                     will bring with it
                much cooler days
                             and longer shadows.

                The winter's season
                             is rapidly on it's way.
                You can feel it at you
                             when the wind blows.

                Cooler, frosty mornings
                             have arrived here
                and the sun is much
                             slower to rise.

                Bright, lazy sunsets
                             end the days much earlier
                and dark clouds cross
                             over the blue skies.

                Green grass had covered
                             the lawns just yesterday.
                Today the brown blades of death
                             take its place.

                What was fresh morning dew
                             has become cold bitter frost
                and the sweet nectar of the flower
                             is now without taste.

                Mother Earth, your beauty
                             is dwindling quickly,
                but your virginity
                             will return to you soon

                as will that big snowy blanket
                             that covers your loss,
                for you will but sleep once more
                             till the spring's sweet bloom.

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