Fall

Fragile love notes dipped

In ink of gold and pain

My blood

Is smeared upon the plants

And my tears

Dilute the colour of green.

Wherever I tread

And step

I feel muted endings between my toes and under my soles

I feel stripped and bare and

Not quite whole

Now that my summer's

Gone

And I'm alone.

I slip and stumble

And slide each way

On inky love notes in the path

And on the branches my heart

Sways

With torn memories and

Ripped dreams

Of the time I fell in fall.