My Life; My Leaf; My Daughter's Feet

A Leaf in the Wind

By Bobbie Wright Grogan

(I wrote the first stanza of this poem in 1990 at age 14, and

 I wrote the second stanza in 2004, after the birth of my first child)

A leaf in the wind

Is always on the go.

Which way?

It doesn’t know.

That’s how I feel,

So confused.

I never know

Which choice to choose.

I’m a leaf in the wind

Always on the go

Who’ll ever know

Which way I’ll blow...

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I no longer feel like

A leaf in the wind;

So much time

Has passed since then.

Life is now

Much more clear

Than I could see

In my teenage years.

Troubles have come,

And they have gone,

But the life of my child

Has made me whole.

As a leaf in the wind

I needed more,

Although I didn’t know

What to ask for.

My life is now

So complete;

My leaf has fallen

At my daughter’s feet.