Autmn's Coloring Book

kites of color, the leaves reminisce
as they twist their final journey to the ground
signaling again another season over
and a new one too soon come around

for wasn’t it just yesterday
when I was shedding my winter skin
and striking a match to the damp spring sky
to let the summertime begin

but the only fires remaining now
are these rainbows falling from the trees
isn’t it funny how a beginning
in the end always becomes a tease