Autumn leaves in dusk

Autumn leaves in despair
Lie scattered in my path
It is dusk and their stillness
Alone they lay in pain
Without wings they wait for winds to
take them away to distant lands

You are free I tell them sitting down close
to them
You lie they cry
We see you cry too behind your smile
This life is now ashes and they sigh

I knew I could never loose on my own
Silence and numb with emptiness
I sat with them
and sang to them
it was never their fault
you lived to your highest and
now you would travel the farthest