falling leaves

One two three four
       
           Let's all take turns falling  
   
    Yellow orange red ash
          
               Let's all take turns changing.


The angels are erasing the sky
     There are smudge marks now, but soon
                      
                                                    it will all be white.

     Just like us.  Soon, we will be clean again--
                                           
we will have forgotten our mistakes
                     
                          and mistake each other for people we are not.  

   We will hold conversations where words are sticky

                  And get stuck talking about all the things that don't matter.



                                 Five six seven eight
                          
                           The trees are losing weight

  Our conversations will have developed an anorexic tendency
 
                                                        Our words will have gone to feather

                        So just lie to me.  Tell me
                                                                   everything's okay, tell me

                            it's okay to believe thing's aren't.



           Nine ten eleven twelve
                    
                                   How fast the world is spinning now
                                          
                                          How quickly color consumes the roads
                                            
                                                                        and then recedes
                                             
                            Like a tidal wave.


How grey the city is; there is no contrast
                             between what we do and what we mean to do

                     What we believe and what we mean to believe.


                                               
 One two three four
 
         Actions ring louder than words
 
                   You can see my colors change without me having to speak.