Anicca

Poem on the Buddhist concept of anicca, or impermanence.

A leaf falls to the ground below
Where, cut off from its source of life
It quickly starts to decompose
And disappears from mortal sight

But though its form, impermanent,
No longer can be touched or seen
Its parts exist beyond its end
And will for all eternity

And ev'rything around today
Just like the leaf discussed above
Will one day cease to be the same
For all things change form soon enough

Poetic Structure: This poem is written in iambic tetrameter, with abab assonant rhyme, meaning that the vowel sound of the final syllable of each line rhyme with one another (according to the rhyme scheme, of course), though the consonants in the syllables may not match.