<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=340691" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Maple Leaf</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I watched a maple leaf’s descent to ground.<br>It’s downward swaying motion, every now<br>And then a pirouette without a sound<br>Until it came to rest so gently down.<br>I asked myself: A life so brief and yet<br>So beautiful, is life to be defined<br>By lasting time and taken for granted? <br>To go around in circles disinclined<br>To find profundity-Sad existence! <br>Ah! But the leaf, its purpose foreordained: <br>To live a measured life, a subsistence<br>Profound in many ways and unrestrained.<br>To waste a lengthy life, so incomplete<br>I’d sooner live my life a maple leaf.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Albert+Ahearn">Albert Ahearn</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=340691" data-title="Maple Leaf de Albert Ahearn" data-description="I watched a maple leaf’s descent to ground. It’s downward swaying motion, every now And then a pirouette without a sound Until it came to rest so gently down. I asked myself: A life so brief and yet So beautiful, is life to be defined By lasti..."></div> </div> </div>

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