A Leaf

How life can be fleeting...

A Leaf

Blossoms to its ill-fated life cycle….

Family grows exponentially…

The tree of life giveth…

Flourishes in its youth…growing…absorbing the richness of the elements surrounding it…

Thousands reside all around…all in sync…all with a singular purpose…

The adolescent period…oppressive…starving for water…some family members cannot hang on…lost forever…fate of the unlucky: lawnmower

Intermittent rain…rolling thunder…majestic lightning…

Survivor’s guilt permeates…

Middle age arrives hastily…welcome it is though…

Crispness encompassing…coolness refreshes…darkness starts its foreboding march…

The end is near…the wind is howling and relentless…it becomes aged and decrepit…

Bone-chilling…hard to hang on…losing vitality…losing pigment…

Sinister the movement…family members drop in the dozens…never to be seen again…

Hope is lost…resolve has deteriorated…not long now…not many left…

The one fateful gust…ripped from its life force…hurdling into the ether with flakes of innocent snow…

The tree of life taketh away…

Eternal is the journey to the unknown…chance…many variables…where is my resting place…

Exhausted and forlorn…unceremoniously arrive at the final destination…

Eerily quiet…fated for disintegration…life is fleeting.

Author's Note

Existential...

Reviews

[amrit]

good work ! every single word tells a story ...

[Steve L.]

Thank you!

[Edward Lancheister]

excellent words i like the nature that your describe by strong imagery words

keep up the good work

[Steve L.]

Thank you very much!