Yellow Leaves

I saved moments to live
nurtured them as leaves
on magnification tree of time
each year, one at a time

All years had same branches
12 in all as I could count
and almost same number
of fresh green leaves

Some trees had a bonus
an additional leaf to live
an addition which I thought
was a bonus for all to live

Then as time approached
for each tree's moments
to live by each day
leaves started to turn yellow

Leaves would turn pale
on one each day at a time
and then the yellow leaf
would drop off from tree

I would lose all the leaf
day after day, crumpled
pale and yellow down
on the ground to vanish

This year, I see my new tree
it too has just 12 branches
and has that bonus leaf
hopefully surviving wither

I want to end atleast 1 year
with some leaves on the tree
still green still on and fresh
not as barren branch to be left.