Trees...you are me...

Trees

                             you are me

and I am you

in so many

senses of the words

that I forget

sometimes

that I am not

like you

bound to a

single spot

resigned

to your entrapment

nor are you

like me

able to flee

from danger

the sound of saws

or of tiny jaws

consuming you

slowly

or toppling you


                        





where we are

most alike

is in our words

stating simply

that blood

sap sunlight

rain

it's all the same

that without them

we die

we cease to blush

as the light

turns from us

we shed

leaves

and bad choices

then wait

till we are

green again

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Trees...how often...

Trees

 

 

how often have

I turned to you

as to friends

unquestioning

incapable of

judgment

of ridicule

censure

derision

 apathy

you whose

only fault

is that you speak

so softly at times

that I can't hear

your words of

comfort

or am I the one

who isn't listening

closely enough

mistaking your sighs

for the wind

your tears

for dew

your arms about me

impediments

to my journey

when you

you

are all

I've ever been

sure of

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Trees....what words to use...

Trees


What words to use
to give you substance
on the page,
what amalgam of letters
to best convey your color?

I sit beneath you,
made small
by your untiring presence
and cannot hold a candle
to how you shatter the light
into billions
of gold and fiery bits
that linger but a second
before the sun changes its mind.

And when I leave,
I leave annoyed
that all that come to me
are words like beautiful
and peaceful
when what I want to say
is that I die a little
each time
you wrap
yourselves
around
me.

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Trees...I long for you...



Trees

 

I long for you

as for a lost lover

the ache that deep

that persistent

that cloying

I was not there

for your passing

for like a lover's death

I could not have

fathomed yours

could not

have answered the

why

 

I

will live with

the void

where you once were

forever

my mind's eye

places me there

where again

I walk among you

only now

it is among shadows

of what once was

when love lived there

I drift

over your remains

rise like an offering

over your tombs

the forgotten things

 

ferns bracken moss

still trying

so hard

to protect

to comfort

I rise like a bird

high upon a current

gaze down

move my hand

in a slow blessing

across the ruined hillside

offer my caress

my condolence

my hush


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Trees....how do I say...

Trees

how do I say

"I'm sorry"

for abandoning you

to another's aesthetic

another's opinion

of your value

in the grand scheme

how to atone

for making your

mass demise

certain

at his hands

I cherished you

and hoped

I'd passed that on

to one whose

 

assurances

 

seemed as rooted

 

as you were then

but something

 

hovering

 

just below

 

the surface

should have told me

all I needed to know

when I signed

your fates

over to him

him

who thought you all

dispensible

do I seek out

others of your kind

in wilder spots

where the chances

of such a one intruding

are slim

where your kind

would uproot themselves

to wage war

against the

saw

against progress

against others

like him

mea culpa

a billion times over

for as many leaves

as have sustained me

or rustlings that

spoke to me

soothed me

moved me forward

through dark places

and whom I ever

thought

I could

leave

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