Fortunate Leaves

Fortunate Leaves. Some leaves are dark jade and yellow, others so gleaming pale green that you just now when they fall off trees they will not rot on the ground but fly and join ocean, because they are droplets of the seas that have tried life ashore for a season, but they are glad to be back to marine life. To ride the crest of a wave, to be a part of raw power, for nothing can stop water from going where it wants. Build dams and dikes it will keep the sea out for a while but only to a great wave comes along and smashes it all. Yet it was nice to be a leaf on an olive tree soak up the sun, to be almost still, tickled by the summer breeze and see beautiful butterflies, but ocean is their destiny it’s there they belong.