A Leaf's Life Poem by Donna Secrest

Like a leaf drifting down a river

Beating against rocks one after another

Our life takes many turns each day

Sometimes getting banged up along the way

Until the next current comes to carry it farther

Or even sinking to the bottom where survival is harder

If we make the journeys end of this river bend

We become unique and have character


Dried by the suns ray

Tattered and torn all over

The winds carry it to a field of clover

And it will die where it lay