Carbon Leaf

November (Makebeleive)

Carbon Leaf


Board the windows, winterize...recess with my mind 
I have some in-between time...recess with my mind 
Quilt of voices, piecemeal scenes...shutters clack 
Hush. muffle time 
Painting of a different stream...recess with my mind 
Jack Frost taps the window sill 
William Tell atop the hill 
Dreaming arrows shoot the hay 
Autumn's color wheel will fade 
Stones thrown to blown spun glass...recess with my mind 
Re-invention. Nurture Past...recess with my mind 
Escape our Independence Day 
(Battle in decline) 
Correspondence won't relay...recess with my mind 
Redcoats raid the Raincoats' space 
Soul to storm upon each face 
Clouds with roving eyes set sail 
Cannon cottonballs of hail 
Autumn raged the skeleton trees 
Kings and queens and squires flee 
Chessboard battlements ablaze 
Battle photo bleached away 
Lonely with the company 
But when November calls me 
Creation melt my enemies 
Hibernation. Silencing 
Makebelieve 
Memory just short of what it could've been 
It didn't last, it went away 
Always knew it would. 
It's good to leave, it's sad to leave 
There