Autumn, di Nicholas Ryan Sampson

Autumn

Autumn sneaks in

preceding dormancy

Leaves take on new beauty

with nothing left in them but a fall from grace

Individually insignificant

while masses burden

The colors give the illusion of burning out

but we really just fade away

(2012)

#Autumn #DeathLife

If nature were so flattered by poems written with itself in mind as people are we would be moving mountains

I see words screaming for attention etched in the lines of your face Let me look closer

Everyday I lived out a song written just for you But you could

You were the wind beneath my wings but I was Icarus so all I did

It must be a wednesday or a friday or any day at all for I am painfully aware of the wo… that consumes me

So much time passes without feeling a single thing that I think I would give anything

You asked what I knew about you and I thought up a list of twenty things

I know that you were there in my dreams and in my arms Every dream we

I get my silence in five minute doses before the plane overhead brings me back to earth

I feel empty unceasingly until you come along and fill my heart to bursting

Everyday I visit the only writers block I know to hone my words and wit and help them cut deeper into the skin

I hope this is postmarked before my death certificate is dat… but you’ll know why if it is or if it isn’t If you get this in time

There is poetry in nature better left to be spoken wordlessly by the breeze

I would write a sweet poem and title it with your name if I loved you at all

The road is long and winding like nothing you can imagine Too many off ramps to count but too few in hindsight