14 5 / 2012

Alone

it stands.

Heavy with regret.

     The things it could have done

                    but didn’t.

Its leaves

              wilting

falling

  one

    by

      one.

Each leaf a memory

       leaving

  at  last.

Sagacious and ancient

      Omniscient

       the tree.

Saddened by                                                    abandonment.

                and the oncoming      end.

The last memory

                       falls. Nothing left.

With a whispering wind,

            the tree    

                   sighs.

   Groaning with the weight of a heavy life

                it falls

                        slowly, finally…

                                  the tree is gone.

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