Leaves

When a leaf falls do the other leaves notice?
Gravity takes hold and its ties to the tree break.
So it floats on the breath of the earth
and rests on its bosom never to return.
It gradually becomes brown
and as crisp as the breeze that knocked it down.
Meanwhile the other leaves continue to be nourished,
fed by the sun and their strong bonds to the tree.
When a leaf falls will the tree notice?
Thousands of green fingers stroke the sky.
One will not matter.
But nature comes closer every day
to stretching the trees limits.
Eventually, she will wrap her tendrils
along the earth and the battle commences
between the tree and the freeze.
Once the last leaf has fallen
the tree finally sees
the first leaf mattered.