The leaves are losing their green mantle now

As Autumn fully takes over from Summer sun

From green to red, yellow and then gone

But not the beech, hanging on, and how.

Soon they will be brown and dried

Their crinkled leaves look like a frown

 And as the leaves all ‘skritch and skratch’

It becomes quite clear that Summer has died.

For when you raise your eyes to see

The skeletal branches of trees now bare

There’s nowhere now for birds to hide

And Winter waits to be set free.

©Joew2023

His heart just followed her when she left
He was cast adrift in a world of emptiness
And though he really sought to carry on
He always felt under a deep kind of stress.
But then one day he found another
And his heart was melted again
But his hesitancy makes him resist her
Because he’s frightened of more pain.
And so he’s trapped or so he thinks
But his lonely heart has other plans
She draws so deeply into him
That loneliness gets no chance.
So now he has a different life
With a new love once again
The future looks much brighter now
It’s a shame it’s just pretend.

©JoeW2023