AUTUMN
Autumn (again).
My favourite time of
the year. Which is
rather perverse now
that I come to think
about it, because
'The Fall' (as our
Yankee and Canadian
cousins insist on calling
it) is all about death
and decay.
Withered leaves
falling from branches,
grass which is parched
and dry.
Colours of brown
and red and gold
against a backdrop
of grey sky.
However, all this
degeneration is but a
prelude to when the earth
will live again -
rescucitated, regenerated,
reborn. Everything
regrows. Reincarnation,
I suppose.
Except that I
don't believe in that
particular philosophy.
(Although I used to, when
I was a giraffe.)
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