The Leaf

Deep in the forest runs a babbling brook, as it winds
it's way through the trees and ferns, a sound can be 
heard of it's gleeful being. A leaf has been released 
by its mother the tree, to make room for the oncoming 
children she will have in the spring. The leaf falls 
into the babbling brook and it floats over the gentle 
peacefulness of the brook as if it were playing.

The brook joins the raging stream, the stream had been 
swollen by the recent rains. It tossed the little leaf up 
and down and back and forth until it was almost torn to 
shreds. Yet the leaf holds together.

The raging stream flowed into the more calm river. There 
the leaf could rest from it's terrible ordeal of the raging 
stream. The current of the river is not as swift. It is warm 
and calm, the leaf enjoys floating along in the pace of the river.	

The river finally flows into the vast sea bringing the small 
leaf with it. The leaf will never be seen again.