When the leaves fall; The ache of letting go
As autumn came to claim the leaves from my strands,
Its breeze swirled around my bark and branches,
A threat, ready to seclude the foliage from my hands.
I was too stubborn to release the leaves from my grasp.
But my leaves, desperate to escape with the wind away from my distress,
So I let them fall, as I promised myself to choose me over strife.
Yet my branches bore the pain of emptiness,
Where once, the foliage had brimmed with life.
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