Dear leaf, why do you quiver
Before you fall, touch the ground?
No eyes, but yet the distance
Should be clear through waves of sound
Falls don’t last nor are they false
No fall ever ends it all
Distance done, some new begun
Falls are but a beckon, call
Every fall is just a step
In the midst of more unknown
That you must taste, then the world
Shall brave the path you have shown
A fall then is like a treasure
Travelling blind, trapped in your lap
Dear leaf, do you then quiver
Like a new-born in some lap?
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Falling to a new life – a poem
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Arvind Passey
Corrected on 19 April 2016
