Love Like Leaf
written by: Hein Min Htun
When I asked you if you still loved me,
you spoke as if love was a leaf,
to turn yellow, fade and wither away.
I know how easily you could let waves of time wash away
our dulcet sentences, laughter and warm touches
toward an inaccessible shore of many a beauteous day.
How could you mistake your heart
shrunk away in coward-plagued fear
for a mere leaf that succumbs to the fickle changes of a year?
Is what so-called love so fleeting and weak as the physical?
Maybe yours couldn’t have been love;
rather it must be a bloom of passion ephemeral,
exuding fragrance and charm in its early openings of petals,
only to seize the chance to terminate upon a blow of breeze
called trivial destiny, sealed in winter’s cold girdles.
Wasn’t it you that made my heart learn love seriously?
The heart couldn’t unlearn it when you left me suddenly;
when a lot of it had seeped into its dead end memory.
My love for you has outlived the years
when yours turned into a dead leaf.
- Love Like Leaf - April 29, 2025
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