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Cookie Cutter Leaves

COOKIE CUTTER LEAVES

dark green cookie
cutter leaves -
so many
they shouldn’t matter?
do we love one more
than the other?
if each one gained
an inferiority complex
cut their wrists 
from the old oak tree
and flew away
to who knows why
leaving us 
with broken branches
would rain run
mascara from our eyes
produce raging rivers?
would Spring become
a painful season?

Kim Rodrigues © 2017

Copyright © Kim Rodrigues | Year Posted 2017

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Darren White Date: 4/27/2017 8:56:00 AM This made my eyes water, and I feel this pain deep within. So well written Kim. Login to Reply Kim Rodrigues Date: 4/27/2017 9:48:00 AM Thank you, Darren! Some walk too close to the edge and fall in. Some are saved in the brink of time. I feel for the ones they leave behind.

Chris Green Date: 4/27/2017 7:57:00 AM So deep and sad the picture and feelings you create in this Kim. Nicely done, but deeply sad. Login to Reply Kim Rodrigues Date: 4/27/2017 7:59:00 AM If each leaf would know how absolutely wonderful they are! Thanks, Chris.