Tree...you are not flesh and blood..

Tree

 

 

you are not flesh and blood

yet you bleed

redeemed by your very presence

and unquestioning nature

while I

eternal doubter

marvel at the single drop

each blossom

sheds for my sins

or are they tears

at my christening

whereby I am cleansed

anew washed clean

because of a promise

written in blood

wine mixed with water

to soften its edge

to ease my culpability

 

or is it both

for one cannot be

without the other

he could not have bled

on you

been torn apart

on you

redeemed me from your height

had he not first

blessed the sea

had you not first

 wept


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Trees...you weep today...

Trees

                you weep today
for the passing of a friend
ancient and loyal
it stood

for what might have been
forever
cheered your birth from the soil
sheltered you from wind
and sun
then held you

let go at just the right

time
as you learned to walk
through the pages of our thoughts
and experiences
explored the process
of becoming the
thing that screams
nature
the loudest
as fodder for our poems


Long after this rain
you will weep
for the great space
left open by its passing
the vines that embraced it
lost now along the fence
frightened clinging
wondering what happened
and why they weren't told
of the sentence imposed
on their innocent

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