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"One Leaf Escaped" by Joe DiMino
One leaf escaped
Thought I had gathered all,
With the seasons
Joys and sorrows
Piled them to rest
But here, behind a massive trunk,
Rooted deep
Awaiting winters first blast
A lone survivor of the dead
Lays speckled and brown
Lone survivor of the dead?
A paradox you say!
An oxymoron?
Have not we
This in common
With all of creation?
We live yet die
Die yet live
Live an extended death
Our worlds compounds
Of reciprocal
Graves and eternities!
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