If I were a leaf

Imagine yourself as a leaf carried by the storm to where your heart is so that you can spend one more moment with him.

 

 

 

Raging storm, come my way

Take me flying away with you

Like other leaves that know no future

Like twigs broken from their past

 

Thrash me up, push me down

Let me go in circles round

To blend with the dust,

To be twisted and crushed

 

Destroy what I wished to be

Rip open every vein in me

But help me out of this melancholy

Please take me to where my heart lives

 

I wish to see him just one more time

To feel his loving touch again

But do not allow him to see my pain

Let him mistake my tears for rain

 

The sight of him will soothe my nerves

A touch from him will revive my soul

If I don’t survive nature’s fury

Death at least, will free me from misery

 

And if I manage to overcome the storm

I will be left soaking with my tears

But the vision of him in my mind

Will be my strength to endure the remaining years 

Author's Note

April 2008: Unedited. I may make some changes later. Suggestions very much welcome.

May 2008: Thanks to everyone who has helped me re-write it.

Reviews

[Serendipity]

No changes, its perfect.

As always your words break my heart. I'm sitting here also wishing, "Please take me to where my heart now lives." I wonder if he will notice, "But do not allow him to see my pain." Although I cannot agree that, "The sight of him will soothe my nerves ... A touch from him will revive my soul." I just wish to be free from the pain, please just "free me from misery."

[Jason]

I do not thing you have to mess with perfection! This was beautiful. The only thing i would say is to change the font, because its tough to read the script. Otherwise it is great.

[Kevin Andros]

A great work. The feel of the helplessness comes alive, as it is jumping out of the poem to hit me. But sometimes, for a short while in life, feels as a nice change to be helpless and follow whereever our life's wind blows us to. A small fault; that is not so fault, that the kind of font you used is slightly difficult to read. he he!

~KA~