Thoughts Of You While Examining A Cherry Leaf Poem by Joseph D E Phillips

My love for you, my dear, is like this leaf:
it changes, never stopping, dear,
it flourishes then, dropping, dies
but never truly dies for it still is!

Matter! You see, it is the matter living!
Though I could crumble this to dust,
the dust would never stop existing
and history or purpose will not change.

The words upon this page will cease to be
though printed for a thousand years.
Know love's not made of words, but trees:
from trees to paper, dust, then trees again.

So many times our love will fall and rise
but love is matter. Matter never dies.