Leaves overhead play
A dry and windy rhythm
As autumn arrives

Just walk beside me
Here at the seasons’ turning
Let me hold to you

I can smell a change
A turning writ on the wind
I turn, and follow

Let us settle in
And listen to the crickets
Chirping in the night

At last the air cools
As nature’s babes grow taller
Wary of the fall

Here at the world’s edge
We peer off t’ward the unknown
Our eye-fires kindling

Let us collect leaves
And with them make a rainbow
Earth reflecting sky

Lay me by water
Somewhere under shady trees
They can sing to me

The heat has broken
And the breeze is at last cool
Whispering to me