In Living, let us learn from
the leaves who, each Fall
before dropping to the ground,
burst out in color - reds, yellows,
orange - like a star in supernova,
so let us expand to the boundaries
of our vessels of skin and blood,
until we can’t separate ourselves
from the Earth. When we breathe
our last, let the ground take us,
like the leaves, into its womb,
only to live again.