Shed

Annie Spratt

I would shed these leaves one after the other

From the stem, and each one fall

To my feet while I mutter sonorously:

“She loves me, she loves me not.”

Even when I’m done shedding each leaf

Off the tree, my feet covered in heaps

Of dead leaves, there is still no telling

That you will return back to me

Nothing in life stays certain

Not even the leaves on this tree.