Autumn Leaf Poem by Uriah Hamilton

Listening to daybreak birds
Singing sweetly after a summer rain,
I feel hopeful like I can create my existence
As meaningful as a poem or a religious saint;
I want to be someone who embraces life
And makes it somewhat better
Than the way I found it,
Someone who cares in the face of suffering
And who doesn't become shallow if blessed with gain.

I don't want to be a man of double thoughts
And unreliable to friends,
I don't want to alter my purpose
As easily as the direction of the breeze;
Some people with the slightest change of circumstances
Become different men and are never seen again,
There is nothing left of their beauty of virtue,
It is as if their kindness became an autumn leaf
And blew away.