Close your eyes.
Forget what surrounds you,
Lose all sense of your body
but not your heart,
the sound of your breath, alone,
in your ears,
attention given to the cold
sharp draw into your lungs.

Only your mind exists,
your lungs,
and your heart.

Imagine a single tree.
no wide open sky to make it small,
no solid, cold ground to keep it supported
no world at all to distract from it's presence.
Just a tree.
A fall tree.

Imagine that the wind you feel
on your cheeks
and through your hair
is blowing through the leaves.
They fly off their branches,
free from their burdening green life
that kept them grounded.

Feel their happiness
as they're flying away,
free to go
wherever the wind will take them
and the best part,
they are unique.

No longer green
like all the others
but letting their
colors shine through,
to be different.

Now open your eyes.