Trees...you are patient as saints...

Trees



you are patient

as saints

perseverant

valiant

beneath your burdens

of snow

bending at the wind's will

and other times

still straight

and inscrutable

as a thought

that never found voice

never saw the light of day

but you

who have seen many days

and much light

many nights stars moons

 

that shone on ancient deeds

and things

no longer remembered

bore it all

locked it away in rings

that multiplied each year

how many springs

unto old age

long you wait

and persevere

and with what

quick stroke

will you end

in what dim light

be borne

beneath

the very snows

you carried

uncomplaining

in your laden arms

etchings

against a winter sky


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