Love Poem: Immortal Mortality
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Written by: Gerald Dillenbeck

Immortal Mortality

Which is the truest measure of a life,
the leaf's annual departure
into Earth's compost pile?

Or the tree's root system
of timeless regenerational reforestation
slow-growing interdependent organic species?

Yes.
Both short-flowered leaf and root flowing systemic,
Left-patriarchal
with Right-matriarchal.