Tuesday, October 20, 2026
descending letters
Doing my daily exercises
Meant to maintain muscle mass and balance
I can see the house across the street
And read the sign mounted beside the door
The word is F-A-L-L in descending letters
A consequential word in another context
Because the autumn leaves do not fall
The way that old people do
A leaf lets go and gently floats to earth
Silently massing on the ground beneath
But people fall hard like individual trees
Breaking limbs on the way down
Not me at least so far
No broken bones unlike my friends
Though I have fallen more than once
These past few years
The leaves are dead but the trees are not
And I too am upright still standing steady
As I look in another direction
Continuing to move through my routine
Today the sun in shining on the leaves
Showing off their shades of red and yellow
And I turn my thoughts away from falling
To enjoy the lovely view in front of me
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