Maple and Cloud

Maple and Cloud so gently the autumn wind rises then falls as the mourning kiss of nature calls so gently it blows on two loving hearts while poor tired old maple is falling to parts her leaves get so heavy so they tell her good-bye when they are gone I see her reach for the sky each year I see her grow so tall and so strong but her leaves keep on coming and then they are gone so how can dear maple still stand so proud I found the answer when I talked to cloud forever he moves across an endless blue sky when he passes poor maple it makes him cry so why does the cloud cry down on the tree and the tree keep reaching for the cloud it can see well maple can’t move and cloud cannot stop she's stranded on bottom he's stuck on the top it's really no mystery it's more like a curse both longing for the life the other finds perverse