Borrow The Journey Of A Leaf Poem by RIC BASTASA

too conscious of my roots
now
how can i be shaken by any
departures?

if i choose mobility to forget
i will borrow the journey of a leaf
float in the air and then land on one of the rivers
where i can drift
and then find my way to the ocean

all, as one sage says, always go
to the sea
and find their resting places
in the
ocean

the leaf in me will find you there
but if it cannot find you

i have other leaves on the tree where
i keep all my roots
and i can still be alive and be
significant

i have prepared for all these
done so much thinking like a whale
that knows
one continent from the other
and if i wail
you have no way of knowing it
for sure...