Growing Pain

I write to heal and to think...

I found a maple leaf withered on the ground

As I picked it up it simply crumbled in my hand

Oh how fragile this life is were ever life is found

All life will fade regardless of how small or grand

 

Looking away from the leaf then I look to the tree

The Maple tree stood; tall, strong and rooted deep

I see the shedding of change is falling slowly free

For the leaves that fall the Maple does not weep

 

How death does comes in so many different ways

Sometimes to grow in life, death is simply change

I see more clearly now that the Leaf is like my days

Hold not to the past and embrace the growing pains

 

Reviews

[Pax]

expressive my friend ~ we can see our lives clearly as we learned to observe and understand the feelings that brought us in our sorroundings. Like the ocean, we ponder as the waves splash in our toes....

i love the feeling in the write...

[SHEEMA HUQ]

growing pains expressed very deeply, a beautiful poem

[lee von cleef]

Growing pains, yes it does,leaves stretch marks too,roots all tight in the pot,crushing the septic pipe, thriving below the ground,till we above are forced to take notice.

[Holly Mason]

like the comparisons much
I also have a huge soft spot for maple trees thank you for sharing