THE LAST LEAF UPON THE TREE

AS LONELY AS IT STANDS

AWAITING THE THUNDERSTORM STRIKE

LIKE SLAPS FROM HEAVY HANDS

A TERROR ON ITS SOUL

CAUSING PAIN ALIKE

 

NO HOPE FOR A LATER SEASON

NO MINDFUL COMPANION FROM A PERSON

ALL BUT HEARTFELT GRIEVE FOR A REASON

NEVER TO TEACH GENERATIONAL LESSONS

 

ITS MIGHTY FALL IT AWAITS

LIKE ITS COLLEAGUES DREADFUL FALL

LEAVING ITS TINY LITTLE  PORTRAIT

ON THE MIGHTY TREE SO TALL

 

ALWAYS ACCLAIMING AT THE TOP OF ITS VOICE

“HOW DREADFUL YOU ARE GREAT WIND!

COME TAKE ME AND STOP THE NOISE

AND GRANT PEACE TO MY MIND”

THE TOUCH OF AN ANGEL

WHEN YOU WALKED IN

IT SEEMED LIKE THE EARTH SHOOK

YOU WERE MY RESCUE FROM A GREAT HOOK

THOUGH MY INNERMOST PAIN YOU TOOK

AND GRANTED RELIEVE THEREIN

 

I ALWAYS SAW THAT FLASH IN YOUR EYES

ONE THAT SMILES EVEN WHEN YOU ARE GONE

THE PLACE MY SOLACE AND COMFORT LIES

EVEN WHEN I WONDER HOW TIME FLIES

 

I THOUGHT I HAD HAD MY GREATEST MIRACLE

I LONGED TO MAKE YOU MY ORACLE

TO WORSHIP AT YOUR FEET EACH DAY

AND NEVER TO PUT YOU AWAY

 

BUT TEARS FLOW EACH TIME I REMEMBER

HOW GREAT A HERO YOU WERE

AND HOW DEATH HAS SNATCHED YOU AWAY

TAKING AWAY MY TREASURED SUNRAY

 

YOU’LL FOREVER REMAIN IN MY MEMORY

I’LL ALWAYS CHERISH WHAT WE SHARED

FOR YOU WERE MY TREASURED JEWEL