Leap. Looking Only Lasts so Long.

[aquafi]

A quiet birch coerces me
to shelter deep within its shade.
But its outstretched branches look to me
as though they soon might fade.

Is it wrong of me to hope
and forget to hurt, forget to fear?
Might I not pretend to rest
and lie, gently here?

I know that all my dreams might end
but it's time for a change of pace.
If a branch should fail to hold
perhaps another will take its place.