For A Leaf.

a leaf floats in a pond
slowly pushed about by ripples
it warns of a tornado.
but it cannot stop it.

a tree is uprooted
in a tornado that destroys the land
and like the leaf that fell from it.
it cannot stop the wind.

a house is blown down
crushed by the tree that could not stop
because it had no say in where to go.
the wind was not sensitive,
because the wind cannot stop either,
but the tree does not know.

a home is destroyed
by the roof that they had built
in the house that was crushed by the tree.

the leaf
the tree
the house
the home.

how a little leaf could bring
the same devastation
a thought could sing
if it thought that it could not stop
the wind.

but a thought is not a leaf.
and a friend is not a wind
that wants to blow you down.


Written for a leaf that I know. Who isn't feeling too sure about itself. =]