When I look around, I see so many unhappy people, divorce, separate, fight, hate. I see the other side of the coin:

TOGETHER. FOREVER.

Two leaves were born in the early spring,
Shiny new lovers vibrating like butterfly wing.
With the breeze, warm rain, promising sunshine
They grow fast, getting bigger, smooth and fine.
They promise to love and stay close to each other,
To be always side-by-side. Forever together!
The summer was a very happy time and lovely,
Facing each other, dancing, whispering, never lonely.
One day in September a new wind came with the brush,
Started to put on the rusty paint slowly. No reason to rush.
Green turns into red and brown and yellow.
The trees became noisy, far from mellow!.

But they stay together as they promise they will,
Caring only for the warming sun, not the coming chill.
October came. The breeze changes to windy blow,
Dead leaves cover the ground, no more will grow.
One of the lovers broke away and fall,
Resting on the ground not far from the wall....
The other left alone. The heart is broken,
The partner is gone, the lover is stolen.

With a strong will, slowly falls after the lover,
They stay again side-by-side, happy as ever.

The wind understand love, dead or alive,
And carried them to eternity, until spring will arrive.

(Cote St-Luc. 2000) Leslie Vertes.