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Autumn leaves aflame

Cold chills freeze her veins

Unveil the burning pain

Summer has died

As her fingers gently undress'

Her summer gown

Shivering by the chills of the wind

Bare in a blush the palette to brush

Red

Courting with a promise of love

A vow sworn

But rejecting befouling eyes

As her beauty scorned, she

Wept

By force of an untamed hand

Faced down tasting a mouth of sand

And locked her heart away

The leaves whirling astray

Tears carved the rivers deep

Wetting the roots that grew beneath

Raindrops caress her skin

And wash the mascara off her chin

Her face a swamp of black blusher smeared

Swathed in white fog of male cheers

Better watch their feet and where they go

The insidious mire swallows