dust

i am dust in this world's rain wash me away i am nothing

i am your skin i wrap around your shoulders and flake away airbound carried aloft on the wind unto the pavement outside your window to be passed through

i am rain in this world's air i am one in billions i fall the furthest and bury myself below every arrangement of myself unique and every ray of light penetrating to depths unexplored i refract insight but I'm clear to see

i am dirt in this world's crust to grow others and tread upon i have everything you could need but I'm not worth a tourmaline

i am a leaf on this world's trees i bask in your light and i give life i am alive and i am bright i will fall like the rest growing red and i bleed my husk emptied and so lives on the tree without me