'Oakleaf Medley'

Fall

Marjo Dohmen

I am a leaf, an oak leaf. I am green and radiant.
I was on a tree, on a branch that I used to call mine.
The tree was my support, the branch my refuge.
I was safe. Nothing could harm me.

I am a leaf, an oak leaf. I am green and radiant.
I was on a tree, on a branch that I used to call mine.
Then came the wind and Touched me.
Disturbed my balance. Tossed me upside down.
And the branch that I used to call mine, let go of me.
The tree gave me away.

I am a leaf, an oak leaf. I become yellow and tan.
Everything hurts. Everything contracts within me.
I am crooked from end to end.
Something happens within me, and I have no hold over it.
My tree let go of me.
The branch that I used to call my own set me free.
Sorrow drains life out of me.

I am a leaf, an oak leaf. I become thin and delicate.
I become transparent.
Light from the heavens beams through me to the earth.
Rain falls upon me, through me, drenches me.
I come apart. I become One.
One with light, one with rain, one with earth.
I am no longer something, no longer no-thing.
I am within all and all is within me.
Desperation has become aspiration.

I am a leaf, an oak leaf. An you?
I called you tree. I called you branch.
I experienced you like the wind.
Now I know you are a leaf, an oak leaf.
Some-times we become slender and delicate.
Some-times we come apart in the earth together.
Light seeps through us. Rain soaks us.
We become One. One with light, one with rain
One with the earth. One with each other.
We are within all and all is within us
We have become eternity.

I am a leaf, you are a leaf.
Once we will become summer as one.

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