The tree grows and on the tree is a leaf
The leaf is content to grow in the love and shelter
Feeding off the tree giving the tree life
The leaf lives its whole happy life
Something happens something changes
The leaf feels a bit cut off something is wrong
An anger comes over the leaf
How can you take that away
How can you leave me alone
The leaf's anger forces its way to the surface
The anger beats red in its veins
The anger begins to turn to an ugly brown despair
A suffocation begins
Its connection to this life it has known becomes tenuous
The leaf feels a falling sensation
Will it recover will it live can it regain its grip on reality
A slow descent into an unknown underworld
Falling with no control over where it lands
No control over what it does
It falls catches a deceptively gentle landing
A river of hope... no, a river of despair
The swirling waters take hold of the gentle leaf
Forcing this lonely traveler at the end of its rope
No choice now in its life
No hope of escaping the currents
Will it flow to the endless hopeless sea
Or drown in the muck never to shine again
Can it hope or dream
Can it create a world out of this chaos
The future looks grim the prospects hazy
Away, away, away
A single leaf falls.
