Leaves

the window’s open something shifts not enough to notice unless you stay your name in the curtain comes and goes without asking we’re like leaves we don’t hold on long we turn a little then we’re gone we’re like leaves we don’t decide what carries us or where we land you touched my hand and let it go like it wasn’t something to keep we talked a while about small things until the words thinned out we’re like leaves we don’t hold on long we turn a little then we’re gone we’re like leaves we don’t decide what carries us or where we land nothing broke nothing stayed we’re like leaves just passing through what feels like ours for a minute or two we’re like leaves and that’s enough no need to name it or hold it up still for a second then not