Fall - Cree Summer

I’m browning, I’m wrinkling, you don’t see

I shrivel more into colors you ignore

As the earth swallows me

You crush the fire red

Standing on my head you crush the fire red

Leaving me for dead

Splendid decay spiraling down to my toes

Yellow wilts holes for you to see through

Crumpled blue my bare pink womb can’t shelter you

You crush the fire red

Standing on my head you crush the fire red

Leaving me for dead

Splendid decay spiraling down to my toes

Black stemmed orange trimmed

With the slightest wind I’m falling from you

Dry and loud stained and proud

Like a bursting cloud I’m falling from you

You’re so mean when you scream in bright green

In my ear you’re loud and clear I can hear

Sunken and gray you used to say I’m not enough for you

I will bleed you a seed to start a new I’m falling from you

Black stemmed orange trimmed

With the slightest wind I’m falling from you

Dry and loud stained and proud

Like a bursting cloud I’m falling from you