Leaves

Vicious winds
Rape the trees:
Private birds
Flee the scene;
The torture never stops.

Leaves scream as they fall,
Their bodies piled high:
Sunday stroll upsets their calm.

No regard for silent suffering,
No knowledge of their violation:
Eventually, they'll drain into the earth
Without a shred of recantation.

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