Autumn Sonnet

Colors fall as the wind paints the red sky
Lush with silence, hidden eternity
As the last marigolds shrivel and die
Laugter bellows within a soul; empty
A mother hushes a wailing child
"Your father needs no more unanswered tears"
The day continues; endlessly mild
but her weak heart still bled with growing fears
Her bleak eyes fell and fell like autumn leaves
while the air, drank her sorrow softly
playing memories with a breeze of dreams
As the last light slips behind clouds slowly
The shadows flee as the ground tears apart
And the song of death rings high in her heart