Teen Titans – Side Stories and After – Snippets; Foxes Upon Foxes and Magical Girls Galore
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Autumn Foliage; Halloween Snippets on Deaf Ears
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There wasn't a sound
Save for the rustle of leaves
Red
Yellow
A tawny hue
And orange
The color of a fiery memory
Of long ago
Staring
Into the wind
The streets turn sideways
The leaves dance on end
Never ending
Piling high before the end
Autumn will come to wash the world
In gold once more
And red
As the high moon
As the harvest season
As the blood of life
Taken and granted
To all living things
Red and gold
A king
And a blood red queen
They dance and make merry
As a child is born
Of pure autumn
And rust to the ground
Shows its blessing
The lasting days pass
The child grows weary
The red hue comes to croak
And has returned to the earth
Of green
Of its warmth
No more
She lays down her head
In silence
She sings
The invisible bond is shorn
When will it come again
Those skies so amber
The center of all life
Remains of an icy cold
Flush beneath her throws
White
A sickly shade
Mostly to man
And yet pure as life can be
Taken and given back
Again
The wind whips
Sweeping away the essence
Of all surviving magic
There will come a day
When time may stand still
On that day
The world will be bathed
In yellow
Red
And orange
Until the red moon
Is cast overhead
Until the spirits have been fed
And when children honor what is
No more
The dead
Who wait to be noticed
Never seen
The Dream ceases to be
The watery surface of every brook
Pond and stream
All frozen with frost
It is coming
The cold
The memory
And that solemn red moon
In a blood red facade
Where none can stop and stare
To listen to the wind
As it sings
Of red
And yellow
And orange
A memory of what the earth must do
And what you must know
Will come again soon
Very soon
With that image
Of a glittering gold
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