Autumn Leaves
climbing up to heaven
of their own accord
under their own strange power.
With a force unseen
they fly effortlessly
ever upward.
Fall leaves
not falling yet
I watch them rise.
And as I watch them
I join them in rising
Their earthbound friends
those common gutter leaves
too crumbersome to fly
all they can achieve is to slow their own imminent fall
and then to flop around on the ground being whittled themselves to nothing with every passing foot
But soaring leaves
those are the ones to watch
they may get ideas above their station
think that they are birds
And as I watch those soaring leaves icarianly fall to the ground to join their common lousy no good earthbound cousins I think
I may never reach the comparative heights of those leaves?
Nah...
I'm Human and those things are just washed up tree feeders!
Nov 17, 2021
Nov 17, 2021 at 10:32 PM UTC
Autumn Leaves
climbing up to heaven
of their own accord
under their own strange power.
With a force unseen
they fly effortlessly
ever upward.
Fall leaves
not falling yet
I watch them rise.
And as I watch them
I join them in rising
Their earthbound friends
those common gutter leaves
too crumbersome to fly
all they can achieve is to slow their own imminent fall
and then to flop around on the ground being whittled themselves to nothing with every passing foot
But soaring leaves
those are the ones to watch
they may get ideas above their station
think that they are birds
And as I watch those soaring leaves icarianly fall to the ground to join their common lousy no good earthbound cousins I think
I may never reach the comparative heights of those leaves?
Nah...
I'm Human and those things are just washed up tree feeders!
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