If you keep moving
You can stay out in the cold
Indefinitely

If you keep moving
You can stay out in the cold
Indefinitely
Float away downstream
Carried in gentle currents
My eyelids closing
Darkened tributaries
Glimmer, glisten in gold leaf
Desperately clinging
A grey squirrel leaps
Coneys scurry to their holes
As a breeze picks up
My autumn son shines
Overflows with hope and joy
These days are too short
Why do I look for
External validation
In the wrong places?
Bright leaves caught alight
By autumn’s flickering flames
How quickly they fade
As a new leaf turns
My year to obscurity
Together we’ll fade
Damp drab dreary days
Scuffling through rusty leaves
Searching for wild life
Wind strips branches bare
Waiting for my time to come
Only five leaves left