AUTUMN

Each year autumn comes in its rusty attire

Wrapped in burnished gold

The notes of your fragrance

Glitter with the blush of our flaming bodies

As they wear the scarlet of your adornments

And unleash a fresh burst of passion

As we spread the carpet of desires

And catch the fallen leaves of dreams

Dreams realised with each other

Painted with immature hands

In the spring of life

Nurtured with hope

Through driest summer

To brim with passion

In ignited rain

And as autumn comes

A whiff of your scent

Unleashes freshly melted dreams

In this glorious season

Of true companions

Walking arm in arm

Through crunching leaves

Where you can hear

The whisper of my heartbeat

And I can see

The glimmer of your content

We were meant to be

Together through the seasons

Till we learnt to be

As egoless as the fallen leaf

As gentle with each other

As the warm autumn sun

As eager to please the night

As the evenings early surrender

Now that we have lived

These lessons in grace

We are the reason

Of this mature mellow season

In the autumn of our lives

Lies the autumn of our love