New Leaf

One morning arising
and cursed with the burden
of thinking

My jackhammer brain’s
ceaseless pounding
the surface of concrete

I came on a leaf
dancing dangerously close
to my window

Chlorophyll stolen its
blood intermingled
with rain

Speckled and auburn
and falling and
grasping at nothing

Jesus with all of his
lilies could not have
designed this

I gazed at the leaf until
I and the leaf
were the same