Are we? Are we really?
Are we truly okay?
I hadn’t noticed.
I was too busy watching
What passed me,
Like the –

Fall fell into my lap
When you threw it away.
I picked it up and told it secrets.
/Darling,
you’re so lovely
that it just might kill me./
And it did.
I wilted with the winter
As fall left us suspended.
(We stopped
and became just
you and I.)

Eventually,
There was new growth,
But we wanted nothing
(of that).
-The thaw can revive nothing.-
/Can no one let it be?
Everyone just seeks
a perfect season
to raise the dead./

You stand in graveyards
While I live.
“After the fall…”
is what’s become of us.
You’re stuck in suspension
(Though we lost the moment) –
Hanging by a fraying thread.
I cut myself down long ago,
fell with the fall,
But I haven’t met summer yet.
And you’re right.
I won’t try because –

Today I caught a leaf
As it fell from nowhere,
And it crumbled in disbelief
When you said, “It’s summer again.”
Is it? Is it really?
Is everything truly okay?
You’re lying.
And I hadn’t noticed –
A single change.