Come to us with your blazing leaves and burning comfort, your cooling kisses in the gentle breeze and rustling leaves, come now, fall...
Bring to us your calm, your gathering together of hearts and souls, your gentle warming of hearths and bowls, descend...
Throw back the sheets of stifling heat, and tuck us in with cool fresh air of changing seasons everywhere, retreat...
Hush our hurried scurried lives, running circles, passers-by, too fast to pause and take life in, too busy with survival swim, float...
Emerge from whirling raging pools, to find the atmosphere has cooled and settled, preparing to begin, the loving snuggling, tucking in, rest...
For again the earth has circled 'round to bring us all back underground, reminding us, all living things require pause and slowing down, breathe...
Come now, prepare a bed of leaves, of resting earth and sleeping trees, for us to lay our weary heads, and dream of all that next year sees, sleep...
Come now, fall, reclaim us all...
