AUTUMN LEAVES
AUTUMN LEAVES
Leaves, all as unfulfilled summer hopes, finally fall
As they do, in their own kind of golden splendour
With Autumn offering them welcoming sympathy
They know with much regret, their time has come
To lay silently among many others of a similar fate
But glad they have fulfilled such a crucial function
Looking back up at the tree’s black bare branches
Certain that new progeny will emerge next Spring
With no way now left for them to offer up advice
Yet assured that Nature has the keys to pass it on
The secret, to capture and transform the sunlight
Copyright © Howard Osborne | Year Posted 2024
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