Leaves of Colour

Green can quickly turn brown

just as a smile can swiftly turn into a frown

Forestry can soon wither and fall away

leaving nothing but emptiness, quiet, and clouds of dispirited grey.

Green can quickly turn brown

just as a person could be looking up, and then staring down.

Light can soon turn to dark, dark back to light

as people think of all that life they wished to rewrite.

Green can quickly turn brown

Do not sit in an unhappy life and drown-

stop looking to the future, stop begging for changes to the past.

Everything that’s been, has already come and passed-

life, although it seems, it is not everlast.

Green can quickly turn black

so stop looking back. Stop and breathe, be still and retract.

Although those leaves are a’turning

the colours of the moon at its darkest

as the plant comes back to life

the power has already been re-harnessed.

Black can be turned soon back to green.

This, you have already seen

Although one day it will come to an end

Life itself will have always of been your best friend.