Fallen Leaves

Copyright - November 15, 1997

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Fallen Leaves

Warm air and sunshine give daytime strength.

Clinging to the twogs that keep them safe.

A security that lasts but a few months each year.

Cooler air at night prepares them for their destiny.

Frostbit and cold shocks them from their secure places.
Once fallen to the ground, different routes to be taken.

To be pasted on paper hanging as a project in a classroom.

To hear the laughter of children playing.
To smell the landfill from inside a trash bag.

Some end up in fires permeating the air.

A scent imprinted in the brain forever.

Only to bring back memories year after year.

Leaves . . . . . begin in the spring.

Stay vibrant throughout the summer.

Finally kaleidoscoping in the fall.

What beauty, what grace, blowing with the wind.

Fallen leaves . . . to begin again nex year.