Fanfare.

Fanfare

Blares of red and yellow leaves

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.