You're an old leaf
from a bygone season
f
a
l
l
e
n
from your place
within my life
I tried to sew you back on
your brown and old
fragile, gold
your moth-like
and shadow-webbed
frailty
but the
winds and weathers
that loosed the tethers
and let you distant
from me
remind me there's no place
among my branches