Best Poems Written by Sophia Strawser

As a Leaf

As a leaf			
I hear no whispers
 Of the wind
 Or the drifting call of a mocking bird,
I see no dances
  Of the branches of an oak
  Or the hopeless small beings
I do not wish to be intermingled
I do not wish to be admired
  I wish to be dormant 
    To the world
    To be forgotten 
    And left connected 
To my only chance of survival,
Although my wishes are commands
I can not stop their disobedience,
I can not hear the footsteps of my death
I can not see the curser of my misery
To them I’m just ornamentation
But to nature I am the hope 
                                            Of new life

Copyright © Sophia Strawser | Year Posted 2007