The Fall is Here

The long days of summer

are slowly coming to an end

minute by minute

the days grow shorter

and the nights longer

the warmth of the summer sun wanes

replaced by icy winds

sending chills across everything it touches

verdant leaves are starting to fade

hues of red and yellow taking its place

transforming the landscape

into a beauty unsurpassed

creating a vision of an enchanted land

in the end these leaves will fall

shaken out by the wintery winds

while their trees prepare for a long sleep

naked, and vulnerable

against the fury of Jack Frost