FALLING THROUGH LEAVES I feel ~ Like a leaf From the Tree of Life once sapped Now snapped Floating nowhere I know where Blown by a cold wind Not of my making The boughs that once held me Now soughing and aching My heartwood is breaking. I fall ~ Like a leaf From the Tree of Promise once golden Now olden Sucked dry, brown and cracking Drawn down by hard times Into a forest of no rest Where flaming and screaming A future once seeming Infinite Becomes fodder for fungi. I ponder ~ A leaf From the Book of History once supple Now stiffened Whose pages though turned, reveal a past unlearned And a future spurned For fortunes unearned By marauders and murderers. And I wonder ~ As I leaf Through the pages of my life Seeing the bookmarks and notations The exclamations and expectations The marginalia and illustrations, I ask myself, Was I ever the sub...