Challenge
"I'm not sure why every leaf must die..."
Create a poem with this beginning.
A Leaf’s End
I’m not sure why every leaf must die
How must they feel
To know there time will be so short
And to know no one will notice when they leave
The tree lives on
The tree gets to live for years to come
But the leaf must say goodbye
It’s too soon
Do they have less worth?
Were they brought to this world to help their master
Then look pretty
As they take their final breath
The tree does nothing
As the thing that once brought them life
Falls
Forgotten
It’s like they don’t care
What’s one leaf anyway?
They aren’t needed
There will be more
No one likes to admit it
But some lives
Were created
To be more important
Than others
The hard workers are forgotten
The lazy ones are remembered
The ones who make them beautiful
Are ignored
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