Fall

Summer fades 

Into winters long

Nights 

Short days of gray

Trees once green

Filled with life

Change

And for a moment

Provide 

One last ray 

Of sunshine 

Before the long gray

Of winter's death 

Takes hold

For but a moment 

There is hope the leaves

Will cling

Until alas 

To the ground 

To be trampled 

Under foot 

They fall