The leaf song

It's easy to love a rose

All velvet and red

To admire the bloom

Forget what’s ahead

But leaves in the shadow

They hold the tree

Without them

No rose would ever be free

It’s ordinary to love the beautiful

You see

But it’s beautiful to love the ordinary like me

I’m a leaf

I’m a leaf

I’m a leaf in the breeze

I love hard

I love strong

I love endlessly

The wind picks me up

It tears me apart

But I hold to the branch with all of my heart

I don’t shine

I don’t glow

I don’t take the stage

Yet I shelter the blooms through every age

Roses may fade

Petals fall away

But the leaves stay

We fight every day

It’s ordinary to love the beautiful

You see

But it’s beautiful to love the ordinary like me

I’m a leaf

I’m a leaf

I’m a leaf in the breeze

I love hard

I love strong

I love endlessly

Oh the world’s eyes are blind

They can’t always see

The beauty that hides in the simplest of trees

But love finds the cracks where sunlight will creep

And whispers

It’s you

It’s you that I keep