Heart Fall

Pumpkin Spice and everything nice came in season

Bringing a bone chilling wind that swirled around me

This time weather had nothing to do with the fall,

but still left me cold and empty like nights in November .

The color of my heart changed like leaves in seasons  

turning dark crimson and fraying at the edges with heartbreak.

It fell from the highest branch and landed fast and hard

But its nature made sure it crumpled and died shortly there after.

Someone can fall in love with the way the leaves sound

beneath their boots laced together like their fingertips.

my heart found another pile of leaves to jump into,

But their heart didn't sound the way yours did beneath mine.

This morning I put on my jacket, the one you liked.

I walked with my headphones in against the wind

Heartbreak had me shivering and I held my jacket closer

Wishing you could warm my heart by holding it like you had.

My heart sat in the library today sipping hot chocolate

searching books for words to describe your sweet kisses

imagining they tasted like the swirls of chocolate on my tongue

My heart went back to summer, but was awoken with chills.

My heart was lit like fire that smelled of campfire smoke

It was beautiful and wild and danced freely in love

but the curious eyes grew bored and the fire died out

Leaving a heart that just got burned and had scars to prove it.

 

This evening I sat and watched the burnt auburn sky

reliving the moments that were carved in eerie designs.

These shaped my heart like faces of  October pumpkins

 put on display on my front porch for everyone to see.

Pumpkin Spice and everything nice came with the season

but still my heart remains lost in the cashmere woods. 

Leaves like my heart will always wander into a new light

and maybe next year Ill be better equipped to handle the fall.