quoted from the film SYLVIA (life of sylvia plath)

some times i dream of a tree

and the tree is my life

one branch is the man i shall marry

and the leaves my children
another branch is my future as a writer

and each leaf is a poem

another branch is a glittering academic carrear

but as i sit there and trying to choose

the leaves began to turn brown

and blow away

until the tree is absolutely bare