Autumn

As months and seasons

Take their leave and depart

I watch my life and the memories

I see my happiness of that time

Blow away in the wind

What seemed to be perfection

Or my life calling

Turned back to the earth

As the leaves fall 

And the new ones are born

I realize

The leaves will wither

But the tree will not

New things have just begun

For the life of the tree

Sometimes we are withered

Naked to the branch

When our hearts are frozen

But we still stand tall

Branches out wide

Roots ingrained

Even when the weather is arctic

The tree withstands

And when brighter days are to come

Our leaves will sprout

And start the new season

Of our life