Autumn Memories

These are long forgotten memories in time
That I'm spilling on these pages,
Of the dark moments of seperation-
A secret that I've been hiding through ages..

It was an autumn's eve,
Sun was about to fly away just like a restless bird,
In the deep solitude of the isolated woods,
A painful sigh was heard...

"I don't want to rot, covered in this dirty soil"
Said the last hanging leaf to the autumn-striken tree.
"I don't want to be carried away by these childish winds,
Don't want to be torn by the swarms of bees..."

"I don't want to die! I'm afraid !"
He shouted, with the most most truest of tears in his eyes,
" Please let me stay. Please..just a bit longer"
Both pain and fear was mixed up in his helpless cries..

A few dew droplets fell off the tree
As he opened his wrinkled eyes,
"All that comes,must leave" ,quoted the tree
"This is the most basic rule of life"...

"Leave the realms of my branches at once.
You mustn't wait at all.
You perish and the new leaves may live
And with your death would end the season of the fall..."..

~~(the leaf fell)~~

In the warm dry mud,
A life forever slept,
I wonder what felt worse
The fear of leaving or the pain of being left..
..
The next time I visted the tree,
It was covered with innocent white clovers,                   White Clovers symbolise hope !!
Bright lush-green leaves blinked at me,
One could sense ecstacy all over..

I grasped - Sometimes we cling onto old memories for too long,
Sometimes we are too reluctant to move on,
But how can the new leaves of promise smile
Until the autumn leaves are gone ?
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But even after that enlighting insight,
I still remember the separation of the leaf and the tree,
Isn't it ironic that even after grasping that concept
I still don't want to let go of that autumn memory ??