DECIDUOUS

DECIDUOUS My leaves are memories of an earlier time As in the scheme of things, I’ll heed the call And when the season comes, I let them fall But nature offers just that kind of rhyme To keep them are as steps I cannot climb And winter in my mind, it builds a wall My thoughts may fade with farewells to them all Each functional and handsome in their prime I’m sad when I accept they have to go To lie there still, or flutter in the breeze Such recollections really cannot last Yet golden as they were, it’s time, I know I sense that I am resonant with trees My mind now bare of everything that’s passed