Fall Fall

I wonder how the leaves feel....

Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash

Once again enjoy children sounds in the background. 🤷‍♀️💙🦋 Apologies for those who find it annoying. Recorded it twice and I wanted to send this out already.

Fall

Fall

Fall

What if we let it all fall

The stuff that no longer serve us

Fall

Fall

The coins in our pockets that weigh us down

The rock laden briefcases on our backs

The heavy metal chains worn as necklaces around our neck

Carried for generations

What if we let it all fall

Unencumbered

Fall into the earth's embrace

Leaves floating over me

Soft scented grass beneath me

Fall.

What if we allowed ourselves to fall

Like leaves in the wind

They don't hold on do they?

Are they afraid?

To be dropped into a giant universe

Swirling with chaos

Away from their home

Away from their roots

Are they afraid?

Do they say hang on lemme try this clinging thing

Let me just try

So I feel safe

I cannot bare to let go

Into free fall

Do they feel so?

Or is there a sense of anticipation

Wondering where they'll land

Which piece of earth will be their new container

Will care for them as they harden and die

Hold them in those last moments

And witness as they soften into the earth

As they make way for new birth

New buds new leaves new growth

New life

Using the nutrients they have provided

The little gifts they've left behind

As gratitude to the earth

for holding it all

Can we do that

Can we allow the parts

Of us

That are clinging clinging clinging

So tight

Afraid of death

Because there is a death that awaits

A death that is part of that same life cycle of leaves falling to the ground

A death that is an end

And also a beginning

As it decomposes

Into the raw goods

The rawest form of life

The new part can use to grow and flourish

To bloom

What if it wasn't actually so scary?

What if it just is?

Or what if it is scary

And we watch that fear

We watch that clinging

The clenching

The holding on for dear life

And we noticed it

And we looked

And wondered

When nature will take its course

And the wind will carry it away

Hmmm

I wonder

I wonder

I do wonder

About the leaves.

Thanks for being here 💙🦋