What can I learn from the falling leaves?
How can one stay so vibrant that visibly grieves?
to cast adrift the draining remains,
so that the host may maintain
-
releasing the burdens that sometimes cling,
that would keep me from returning
with the spring;
back from the hardship
about to begin,
winter forthcoming
how it rides with the wind;
-
my time is not over,
but my trials may show
both with hope and with sadness -
that all of of the leaves must go.
