Eternity

Seamless blue sky
Pulses rising with the heat
Tempered only by the breeze
The horizon shimmers with the field.
A men collapses under his faithful tree
And melts into the grass.
There is no winter in his world.
As he revels in eternal warmth,
A single golden leaf
Floats into his refuge,
Crimson red and wet.
It warns shamelessly of changes,
Of copper colors and cold.
He clings desperately to the moment,
As fragile as the leaves,
Knowing with each passing day
Paradise flakes away,
Buried by a leafy avalanche
Lulled to sleep by the frost
Awakened only by the raging sun
An eternity away.