Stay Autumn Stay

Stay Autumn stay

Days full of chemo,

Nights full of linen changes.

We won't put up a twinkling tree

or cook a huge feast.

We won't let the leaves

stop falling.

Ever.

Spring is too new,

Winter too old.

The bluest sky is teaching us of beauty profound,

When life begins to fade

and yet is at its brightest.

Spring we take for granted

So much life,

too much for us to understand

too great to grasp.

Winter burns until we are broken.

Summer leaps like a child that has known only good.

But when Fall comes no one has to remind us to give thanks.

Fall is life finally understood.

So stay Autumn stay

God teach me how to pray

Days full of grief

Nights full of prayers

Give me back yards full of leaves

and arms full of him

and I will never ask for sleigh bells

or daffodils

I will wait for nothing

I will want for nothing

Stay Autumn stay