Relieved                  

DF 12.2022

 

Snap! With each passing moment, I leave behind the one place I knew 

I am looking up as I am falling down, becoming resistibly aware 

of separation, of the glue that bound while I sprouted and grew

Then slightly changed and dew soaked, I am suddenly scintillating away

 

Swoosh! I tumble through air waves from a butterfly’s flapping wings

And re-find my balance on the crown of a golden rod, now gray

Delicately rebloomed into a patch of puff balls on top of browning twigs   

I am looking down as I see their leaves fall, becoming resistibly aware

of nature’s cycle, of the glue that bound while we sprouted and grew

Then slightly changed and sun soaked, we are suddenly scintillating away

 

Sway! Seed heads scattering, up then down, like falling stars, separating 

and falling like me. We sway together but apart, and the ground is near

With every sway, my first encounter of separating and falling keeps fading

In my journey of tumbling, I found others, and I found me, but not fear

I am looking down as I near the sweet leaves of grass, becoming resistibly aware

of the ignorance I once had, of the everlasting glue that bound them and me

Then slightly changed and out of time, I am on the ground and of the ground, 

I am in peace. But I am only a leaf.