Leaves Vines Life Times

What if I told you these leaves were the proof that there is something special in everyone and everything?
What if I told you I want to be like these leaves?
These leaves, oddly shaped but beautiful.
Each unique but all connected.
Stemming from the same place, but all reaching out to separate.
Yet all their efforts are useless as they are forever bound to their roots.
Only the old leaves know that without the roots, death is imperative.
The youngest ones stay close, afraid to venture.
The rest all yearn to leave, to separate, to go out into the world.

Such is true with humans.
We are all leaves.
Connected.
Some closer than others.
But we can only go so far before we realize...
we cannot live without the others.
before we realize...
rebellion is a circle.

I no longer need to wish.
For I am.

~Maria