It started with a leaf

As it fell from a tree

And the water it touched

Rippled out to the sea

And the sea that it met

Rolled on to the shores

Where the sand and the seagulls

Took the leaf in their claws

The seagulls took flight

From the sea to the land

And the leaf drifted to earth

Along with the sand

The earth took the sand

The leaf rotted to peat

Feeding a tree-leaf

That water did meet

And the water it touched

Rippled out to the sea

Which rolled on to the sand

Where the seagulls should be...