Does a leaf play both sides when it falls? <br />For it is then, that it is away from it’s umbilical, <br />Floating in the atmosphere <br />Betwixt the Heavens and Earth. <br /> <br />Does it betray its’ tree, <br />When its’ tree initially let it go? <br />Or does the tree betray it? <br /> <br />The leaf can rise and fly <br />To the Highest peak, <br />Cheating neither Heaven or Earth. <br /> <br />Only one day to fall to foundations ground, <br />Looking back at no thing in judgment. <br />Knowing the tree that it first left.<br /><br />Gervase Caldwell<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/shade-tree/
