Together

I wrote this poem back in the Winter of 1991.

It was a wet and cold winter. It rained so much. I had to catch public transport to Uni - took me sometimes like 2 hours to get to school. Made worse by the cold wet winter weather.

While I was waiting for the bus at the Heidelberg train station, standing in the rain, I saw a pile of brown leaves caught near a drainage hole. And this came to me:


Leaves scattered on the ground
Spent, their time past
They live out their dying moments
Withering on the ground
Gathered in small piles as if to comfort each other of their fate
They live and die
Together.

Heidelberg, Victoria 1991.