Gems and Stems and Leaves on Trees and Limes and Rhymes

Just focus! Focus is what people say

you should do when there’s too many to-do’s in play.

So today I focused on pizza and tea.

Yes I did! You may think I just wanted a rhyme,

it’s not true!  I wanted a pizza, you see.   The tea

was just something to go with the lime,

left over from shopping last month sometime.

So I tried very hard just to focus at all,

on a single event among billions this fall,

on one tree at a time, among millions of trees.

One leaf at a time among thousands of these.
With hundreds of branches on each one of them,

I selected, at random, a beautiful gem,

full of rubies and gold with a silvery stem.