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Season Change

The house is colder now
  as autumn sheds its leaves
  the push-pull  falls wildly beneath the plows
  along the edges of the gutters and eaves.
perhaps because the house is emptied
  of all the faded color hues
  when your heart lit the entryways
  to the lifetimes shared, here
with you.

I watch the color palette change
  chlorophylls leaking out in the icy cool
  carotenoids producing yellow, orange, and brown 
  the corn mazes shriveling in dry stalked spools,
the old weathered maple blushing to scarlet red frowns,
  the great oak in its russet brown undress
  the aspen and poplar shaking yellow fringed gowns,
  autumn chill alive and stirring north and west
within the colors spilled down.

I feel it in my body
  my bones and muscle ache with each step
  closing door and window with revelry
  to the change to which I become adept,
holding the season's lost memories
  tight upon my face of laughter and tears wept
  a last embrace within the season's pace
  and final goodbye
to the magic had. with all its grace.

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