Numb Poem by Starfish ZA

The Autumn of Our Years
There was a spring when we were young,
When life was new, our song unsung.
A summer when we gave our all,
Never dreaming of the autumn fall.

We sowed the seeds,
we watched them grow,
We gave more than the world will know.
Through changing seasons, sun and rain,
We gave, we lost, we loved, we gained.

And now the autumn of our years,
A world has changed beyond our fears.
The warmth has faded, the winds have turned,
And little remains of the respect once earned.

Like autumn leaves, we drift away,
Unnoticed in the rush of day.
Once part of branches standing tall,
Now barely noticed as we fall.

A strange new world, so cold, so numb,
What of the world that we've become?
What of the years, the seeds we sowed,
The love we gave, the lives we showed?

No mercy in the winds that blow,
No thought for those who helped things grow.
And in the silence, we become
Not old, not lost, but simply numb.

Yet autumn leaves were once the green,
Part of the beauty once proudly seen.
And every tree that stands today
Was nurtured by the years that passed away.

So when you walk where leaves have fallen,
Remember the seasons that came before.
For autumn is not without its beauty,
Nor are we worth any less than before.

And perhaps the deepest winter comes
Not when the final leaf has gone,
But when the world forgets the spring
And all the life that autumn brings.