The Leaf Will Follow

The wind is walking beside me
Like the coldest winter day
So much is here
So much is not
This world is only temporary
Fading like the sunset
The cold enclosing pattern
Waiting for the foot step
Headed towards the strangest grave

And they talk
Chatter like the stream

Coming down upon the paper
Predator bearing down upon the prey
Wait not for the story’s change
Wake me not from deepest dream
And coming, falling like the water
Hitting rocks
Then leave me; fly
Come unto the kingdom’s clouds
Stare down now-
The earth will go.
All will come to follow
But do not take me for the lead

And they will walk
Winding like the stream

I cannot help it
If I am wrong
Leave me to my anger
Seethe
Drip between the rocks
And stones
The leaf will follow after autumn.
Look out for the falling star
Tearing scars across the
Sky- leave it,
It is here to die

And away the secrets they will lock
Cursed darkness of the stream

On towards darkness
Watch me fall
Accept the dying star
Flicker, fade, forever, no more
Accept the fallen
We are from grace
Please forgive me
But I cannot stand to fail anymore.

"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot is called to mind," one of my teachers told me.