AUTUMN LEAF, TEACH ME TO LET GO

Nature Reflections

Autumn leaf, glowing amber in the sunlight

I see your veins - once corridors for life,

now quiet, awaiting your decay

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Autumn leaf, teach me your surrender

Teach me your courage

to fall and let the wind carry you

along this hard city pavement

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Autumn leaf, teach me your lightness

Teach me your ephemerality and acceptance

Somewhere inside, I think I already know.

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Autumn leaf, thank you for the reminder

that sometimes it is easiest to just let go

to trust the cycles

of life and death the seasons carry

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Autumn leaf, thank you for teaching me

that only from letting go,

do we grow

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Autumn leaf,

sometimes I see you holding on

Your stem hesitant of the fate you await below

but still you remember your sweet surrender

and now here you linger

my quiet and gentle teacher.