I placed a leaf into the stream

and followed along the bank,

I watched it dance and bounce around

until it finally sank.

The places it passed as it moved

the rocks and ripples lifted,

the gurgles and trickling noises,

along the stream it drifted.

It shaded minnows in the stream

I wonder what they thought,

as overhead the leaf went by

perhaps it was a dream?

Soon under it went and slid along the bed,

rolling, sliding, over and over it turned

until on a submerged stone it stuck

and so it’s rest, it earned.