Ben Gieske - A Falling Leaf

A FALLING LEAF

In the multitude
between the cacophonies
of the world’s moods

there free falls
from a maple tree
with waving witnesses

a solitary leaf
the only from the
many arms of this
aging forest amazon

an appendage dropping,
descending, drifting,
sailing downward

from its height
to an umbrageous world
below ––––

a solo flight
its last and only journey
with earth’s gravity
to a mossy couch
below ––––

to be transfigured
into elemental structures
in mother nature’s
compost factory

architectured to be hoisted upward
through subterranean corridors
then erected in budded form

into a newly-Easter
arboreal quilted aparison

to awaken with the
luminescence of a
rousing sun

to flutter with the melodic
breezes of spring airs

to hear the distant
drumming of an on-marching storm

to pitter and patter
with dripping drops of rain

to once again be a leaf ––
one with the fingernails of a tree.

October 14,2006

Ben Gieske

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