Dead Leaf — Summary

Why I can't give up on you? I'm holding onto memories Am I being greedy? I try to repeat the last season I try to

I want you who makes eye contact with me I want you who wants me again

like the dead leaves that have fallen and are flying away my love collapes weakly

If our hands touch It feels like it's going to crumble I can see our relationship starting to wither Like the autumn sky It's empty between us You're my fifth season I can't get to see you You're still look green to me

The wind blow And everything drift apart The rain pours Until the last leaf left It withered away The dead leaves fall Like the tears Like falling leaves

This love Is like the fallen dead leaves

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The speaker can't let go of a relationship that is clearly ending. They hold onto memories, wonder if that makes them greedy, and try to repeat "the last season," as if the past could be replayed. Underneath is a simple wish: to be looked at, and wanted again.

The whole poem rests on one image, the dead leaf. Love is compared to leaves that drop and blow away, and every detail of autumn, such as the wind, the rain and the empty sky, becomes a sign of distance between two people. Even a touch feels fragile, as though it might crumble. The strangest line is "You're my fifth season," which suggests the other person exists outside the normal cycle, and the speaker still sees them as "green" when everything else is dying. That gap between hope and reality is the heart of the poem.

The mood is quiet, sad and resigned. By the end, the falling leaves feel like tears, and the final lines accept what the speaker has been resisting.

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