Trees...you sing the same song

Trees

you sing the same song

no matter where you are

sending it on the wind

and on birds' wings

tucking it into the soul

of whatever walks beneath you

soft as sighs

loud as howls

ever original

ever yours

and whoever deigns to hear

your dirge or lament

your reverant chants

nocturnal chorus

whispers at dawn

you sing the same song

no matter where I am

assumed and redeposited

elsewhere

miles from where I began

as long as you are there

I am where I need to be

I am home

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Trees....it has come to this...

Trees

it has come to this

long knowing that today

is all we have

for tomorrow will mark

the end

of your sojourn on this earth

of your towering over this place

of your watching

your waiting

for what you knew

would surely come

someday

and now it is that

someday

the day when I compose

a dirge that I will sing

silently

as pieces of you are

taken away

pieces of me

as year by year

falls away from you

from us

from your bark

your flesh

your boughs

your arms

your heartwood

your very soul

but you will hear

you will hear

and for you

for us

I will sing

silently

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