When writing of the third season of the year,
why say autumn when we could say fall?
Leaves fall, temperature falls
a toddler falls with first steps,
an old man falls taking his last,
we all fall asleep at the end of a day,
we fall in love, fall for a scheme,
not to mention the parents of us all
falling in the garden for fruit.
That’s the big one,
instigator of all lapses,
when disobedience triggered grace.