The Poet of Falling Leaves

He wrote poems on leaves and tossed them into the wind. People called him foolish—his words would decompose before anyone read them. Yet the poet insisted that beauty doesn’t need permanence. One autumn, a lonely widow found one of his leaves drifting onto her doorstep. Its words—simple, gentle—made her smile for the first time in months. A young traveler found another deep in a forest and decided to return home after years of wandering. Over time, countless people discovered his leaves, each carrying a message perfectly timed for the finder. By the time the poet died, no written book remained—only stories of leaves that healed strangers. And perhaps that was the truest form of poetry: words that matter exactly once, to exactly one person.