Slowly Drifting Away

by Benjamin Raymond , from US

 
A leaf on a tree
That has fallen off,
Is stolen by the wind
And slowly starts to drift away.
 
From time to time
A leaf in the air is seen
By the tree and the tree
Hopes for the leaf that had once drifted away.
 
The leaf did not ask to leave,
But the wind did not care.
The wind did not seem to understand
What the leaf meant to the tree.
 
The leaf is lonely at times.
It lives with the wind,
But the wind does not speak
It only howls.
 
The wind carries the leaf
And the leaf slowly drifts away,
Sometimes going to far off places
And seeing new sorts of faces.
 
Sometimes the wind,
Drops the leaf,
Like a man dropping a piece of paper
As if he no longer cared.
 
The leaf waits for the wind,
Like it waits for the tree.
It can take days or even weeks
But the wind always returns.
 
The leaf had a dream
That it saw the tree it once belonged to,
 
But the leaf cannot stay,
It slowly slowly drifts away.