Adagio Autumn
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Crunch…
An autumns' day. The ship was long docked yet they had only just begun. The air was fresh and the sky was clear. The symphonic colours of proud reds and oranges, majestic yellows and gold and struggling greens invaded their eyesight. However, imposing as they were, they could only feel that rare sensation of… calmness.
Crunch…
The sounds of crackling leaves entered their ears. Each heavy step was wrought with the destruction of the fallen fronds into oblivion. They waded through the mass slowly, amazed at the beauty of the inevitable demise – the green leaf so filled with sunshine, now so yellow. So yellow. As if the sun had consumed it and taken over.
Crunch…
That sound which resonated through the atmosphere. That sound of the leaf's final goodbye. Its swan song, so haunting and too fragile. Goodbye… It may have said… Do not forget me… It must have uttered… I will return… It cried with all its might.
Crunch…
The sound of his heart. He kneaded his chest to calm it down but it was no use. Each quaking beat constricted his heart tighter and tighter. It was being taken over. A tingling rush had infiltrated his very veins, a million emotions – of confusion, of admiration, of pain, of ecstasy, of gluttony, of love, of fear. Mostly fear. Fear that if he looked her way, she wouldn't notice… or worse… that she did. It was taking over… It had taken over.
Crunch…
The sound of her heart was masked by each step. She was not ashamed of it, no. Instead, she was afraid that the one it had been calling might hear it, hear it then wish it away. Yet, her heart was calling. It was calling as loud as it could. Would she listen to it, each beat, or would she let it pass and echo beyond understanding? She didn't know… but her heart did… and it was calling with all its might.
Crunch…
An autumns' day. Long had they felt this way, but they had only just begun. Calm was the wood. Calm was their walk. And even though symphony of emotions played and danced and danced and celebrated. Commanding as they were, by and large they could only feel that rare sensation of… calmness.
Silence…
They stopped walking. And he looked her way, and she, to he… And her mouth parted, and he heard heart.
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