summer breeze, it makes me feel fine

went out for an evening walk today, after one long lazy afternoon.

the skies was grey and dull. the clouds were heavy and laden with trouble. the sun shied away from the menacing crowd. the summer breeze was unusually cold. the trees were still as corpses.

but the most pitiful of all, were the leaves, the dried withered leaves who had been banished from the canopy. the moment they fall, they are no longer masters of their own fate. only the lucky ones find their way back to the foot of their home, where they are torn apart by scavengers. but as they decay, they return back to the earth, to be absorbed by the roots and reunited with their parent tree again. but for the unlucky ones, their fate lies in the hands of nature. as the wind blew, they rustled helplessly in circles, not knowing where these strong sweeping hands may carry them.

i empathise with them. because just like them, i have surrendered my fate to the hands of a distant body.