Fall

When leaves of many colors fall
And cold air hints at summer's end
I stand at your grave and wonder
How did you face the reaper; death
Did your eyes show fear or courage?
There's No way I can truly know

The warmth within your eyes I know
Is gone, no more, lost in your fall
Without you I lack the courage
To live alone. My life must end
Yet it’s your words that stop my death,
Your words that make me still wonder

If I can find meaning, wonder
If there's a way for me to know
If there could be life after death
When from this world of woes I fall,
When my life is at its sad end,
Could I pass through it with courage?

In what did you find your courage?
Were you sure? Or did you wonder
What lay beyond your world's end?
My heart screams it was yours to know
That your soul would fly, and not fall
To gates of hell, nor depths of death

But uncertain am I of death
I cannot face him with courage
Nor know if I would stand or fall
All this because of you I wonder
Your words meant more than you can know
They cling to me long past your end

I wish to be, when comes my end,
Like you, how with life to face death
To bear the light, so all may know
That I too have your bright courage
That day even death will wonder
Why dying leaves with splendor fall