Autumn: A Sestina

The summer skies fade away As the silent autumn days return Once more, the leaves disperse from their mothers Hold me now, and forgive me, it’s been too long We sink to the ground with a light landing once more Let beauty mesmerize you this time The rivers show no signs of time As they carry me away And they caress me even more As the waves retreat and return The river’s journey feels so long And leaves me thinking about my mother We were weaned and loved by our mother She showed slow age in time Her arms were growing long And the ground seemed more and more far away She told us we would never return But to cry no more She would wipe our tears once more She says don’t forget your mother You will never return It is almost time For you to glide away Don’t look back and you will never long I remember but it’s been so long I look back just once more As I gently float away I think about my mother Oh, what is this time? I will be forgotten as winter will return I wish I could return To the nurse I was stuck to for so long Oh, for the sake of health and time I remembered once more About my fragile mother Who would soon die away My mother has passed away and her seed will return She to soon be a mother, will live as long As her mother before, for a long time