There was a time

There was a time,
When I was up there,
Whispering to the moon
songs of silence, stories unheard
Beget a ray of merry laughter
in her pretty, shy face

There was a time,
When rays of gold
fell upon my face,
I smiled back greenly,
shared a warm greeting

There was a time,
when I often ponder
how it feels to be down there
far flung, unsheltered yet,
happy to be free at last

Never did I imagine,
a free, lone leaf
to be beaten back, forth, hollow
like a broken kite string

Amidst a thousand wails,
of my fellow fallen leaves,
mine is nothing but
a drop in the ocean

Facing a death of silence,
I couldn't but wonder
There was a time
When I used to be so naive.