So Easily

Upon the ground

leaves fall willingly

or so it seems,

and we rake up

piles of them

each year, hoping

our fall task is done,

yet, those dead ideas

were the hopes

of all those who

came before

and did as we did

and nothing more,

and still,

the leaves fell

and were raked

as they were

and should not

have been done as

easily as it was.

4Mar2016