My Fairest Leaf

Published on 21 July 2017 at 19:08

To find myself a fairer leaf,

in a jungle of a thousand trees,

would be impossible to achieve,

when she is all I can ever see.

 

The breath of the wind carries me far,

yet I am all too drawn to her beating heart.

It takes me beyond the Earth and her art,

to where I see my love, brighter than a star.

 

She floats along, with not a care in life;

her heart races, which then quiets in the night,

sleeping ever so soundly—that is, until daylight.

She rests upon the shadows of moonlight.

 

She then wakes to a bright and sunny day,

to where beauty can never die in such a place,

to where all the other leaves shall play,

and where she, my fair leaf, may lay—

 

upon the greener grass of a distant tomorrow,

to where there is no longer any such sorrow.

A place to where time has yet to borrow—

a greener land where we may one day go.

 

And it is a place that has been in my dreams

ever since I met her, my fairest leaf,

where we may sway to the sound of a melody

that is ever so lovely, and sweet, and green.

 

It is a place where we’d always wish to be:

me with her, my fairest leaf—my beauty,

for the rest of our lives, a single century,

or perhaps, even… for the rest of eternity.