Oratio: Falling Leaves

Like the leaves
on a forest tree
waving in the breeze
we all fall
someday
as the seasons change
our grip to the past
loosens
inevitably
we must give in
to what is to come
falling to earth
becoming one
with the soil
we do not die
we transform

~Robert Van Valkenburgh

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