Autumn Leaves

Authors note: This poem was originally written as a song about a long distance relationship I share with my boyfriend. It's about the nostalgic feeling of hurt because I'm so far away from him. We've only experienced the fall season together through short visits. However, the leaves remind me that I'm one season closer to seeing him again. In my song, I wrote "The leaves make sounds of memories that I can't remember, but we'll make more when we can." The nostalgia of not having very few fall memories together brings pain, but also a hope that if we can make it through this distance, we can make it through everything.

Trees outside my window grow

And nobody notices but they provide

Shade caught in their 

Leaves

Fall down in autumn

But spring brings them back to shade

The summer heat

The girl inside that window

Grows and nobody notices

But she only holds the love he wants

Miles apart are spent

Sharing the times my hair tickled

Your cheek or sparklers at dusk when the light 

Revolved around me

Or they’re spent silently

Remembering your face so

Patient on the pillow when I counted

Hours on the clock, and on my fingers, before you left

Before the summer ground

Can miss the leaves, autumn drops

Its shade from branches

It’s how I know I’ll see you again. The seasons.

My heart hates the fall; everyone says the distance is necessity

but they've never left our football town. The fall leaves

Trees so stripped of summer and all its

Smell of you and taste of your cold popsicle mouth

But I begin to see clearly

Through the branches to the

Sunlit sky knowing I’m another

Season­­­­­­­­­­ closer to you.

The leaves are consistent and I rely on their promises

Of you picking me up and spinning me so beautifully like a summer sparkler

A light around you

Like the

Rings in every tree another

Year in the trunk is­­­­­­­­

One more for us