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Moving Poetry by Dr. Julian Ungar-Sargon

Autumn Leaves II

Julian Ungar-Sargon October 5, 2008

I return to you and you are dying again

Golden leaves gloriously reflecting the brilliant sun

Anxiety-ridden

For a week or two you will be dead-on-the-ground

A darkening browny rust trodden leaf

Ve-emunascha baleilot

I hereby promise to wait for you

Once again

Another year

Or at least the winter

I believe in your eternal return

That you will grow anew.

It is the same you

A genetic promise

This tree same shape same color.

So I will wait out the winter ahead

Watch this tree

Naked in the snow

Brown and bereft

And remember these few days

Of golden sunlit rustling

When we were together

And I blessed you

I promise to witness your dying

And your birth in the spring

A greenhorn

You will not recognize me

We will need to get re-acquainted

No matter

I look forward to it

And then next year as you take your leave once more

You too will realize

It was all about waiting and faith

And hope and promise.

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