Tale of the Leaves

Raindrops fall in violet and blue smearing the storm amidst the dew roses of red fade to white frozen, they shatter and fall through the silence comes a scream a reoccuring nightmare's favorite dream time will stand still but never stop forever keeps ticking away autumn leaves fall in red and gold strange how warm suddenly goes cold crackling under the heavy feet of the sun and her morning rays they try to tell us stories of long ago but what stories could a leaf really know we chose to ignore them, so they whisper instead to the butteflies who pass them by stardust falls in silver iridescence accompanying it, bittersweet jasmine incense whirls of smoke drift towards the night sky trying to catch the moon footsteps etched in silver powder with each new print they scream a little louder "Ouch!You know it really hurts when you walk all over yourself..."