As the leaves fall...
One by one
falling to their destiny
to crumble beneath someones feet
Like I who fell in love with you
I started out green and full of envy
at the flowers whose beauty beckoned others
to take them home and adore them
while I remained in the branches
clinging to something I could not explain
and then I saw the sun
there the whole time giving off a brilliant light
and I admired it
and as time went by my envy changed to adoration
I grew to love the light that somehow sustained my life
I turned to face you everyday that my beautiful sun came out to play
and I remained there on my branch
even when you were mad and went away
sending a storm
but your anger wouldn't break me
or tear me away from where I wait
because I knew that you'd return and make it up to me somehow
with longer days in summer where I could bask in your light a little longer
and time flew by and one by one
the leaves began to fall
victims of things they cannot control
victims of love they cannot have
just like me
a leaf that had started out envious of flowers
and then fell in love with the sun and wanting nothing more
than to bask in your splendid light
but somehow the world has grown colder and my time with you grown shorter
and has given way to a neutral feeling, I feel wrinkled as all my love for you
has worn me away
and I let go
as the leaf falls from the tree
my memories of you return for mere seconds
happy days I spent with you fly by me as I fall
I can't cling to it anymore and I fall
the wind picks me and takes me
to some other place where perhaps
I am picked up by someone who adores a wrinkled worn leaf
and sees the beauty in the life of one tiny leaf
that loved as strongly as it could but let you go because
the time had come to say good bye.
By: Jessica Saez aka RojaZorra
 RojaZorra · Thu May 13, 2010 @ 10:48am · 2 Comments |
