Fanfare
Rebel against the gray sky and asphalt.
Currents of colour flutter through the air,
Saluting dying summer with a fanfare.
A student of logic and memory
Recalls a superstition of wishes.
Puts her pack of knowledge on the ground
And dances in a flurry to catch one.
The more she misses the more she laughs.
Aha! Success!
She holds the crumpled colour in two hands.
Closed eyes.
A secret wish.
She jumps.
Plummets back to reality.
She's in the road's middle
In a car's way.
Flustered.
Apologetic waves.
Mortification.
Then she sees the driver.
Smiling,
Sadly.
And they share a laugh,
Saluting dying summers with a fanfare.
Hiya peoples!!!!
'Tis Xeo/Lentil/Xak/Hey You. How's it going?
I am in a good mood, because it was just Thanksgiving (hope you had a Happy one by the way) and I should be doing homework right now but I HAD to share this.
Why? Well, because I love torturing peoples with my writing and because this is Based on a True Story. That is to say, just this morning I was walking down to the library to study (more or less successfully) and there were these brilliantly coloured leaves and I was all *looks shiftily in all directions*. I saw nobody around so I spent the next 4-6 minutes attempting to catch a leaf before it touched the ground.
Just as I succeeded I realized that I was in fact BLOCKING THE WAY OF A CAR!!!!! And I had been for the past THREE MINUTES!!!!!1!!! O.o
As I realized that I also realized that my water bottle (for while in the poem I put down a bag, I in fact put down my water bottle) was ROLLING DOWN THE HILL TOWARDS THE CAR!!!!!!
So yeah, I nearly died from mortification, until I realized that the man in the car was laughing. In a very nostalgic way.
And I just thought I'd share that terribly touching part of my day with you.
