September Eyes

I see the world

With September eyes -

Sad farewells to reminisce

Unfortunate regret growing

Summer's bounty suddenly

Overtaken with

Autumn's cool nights

Too late for a garden to grow,

Too early to be taken by the frost,

Winter's icy grasp looming

Like a dark shadow

Coming ever closer

With every setting sunset

Growing earlier

Advancing with

A time so unyielding

Taking all the leaves off the trees

Stripping them

Bare to their bones

Exposed to it all