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I AM A TREE

 

I AM A TREE

Do you see my trunk so wide?

I supply the world with breathe

With the other trees at my side

 

I AM A TREE

With branches swaying here and there

I shelter these animals with my life

And give them a large home to share

 

I AM A TREE

My roots planted firmly in the ground

I feed the crawling things below

With my old leaves, many a pound

 

I AM A TREE

Stronger than fifteen giants

I  don’t understand what is happening

Weaker I am, but no less defiant

 

I AM A TREE

Being wacked, sliced, and hit

I try to fight for freedom and peace

But these men who are hurting me don’t have much wit

 

I AM A TREE

Being stripped from my strongest roots

I have nothing left to do but to

Let them bring me to those huge chopping shoots

 

I AM A TREE

In the form of wood chips

I’ve never been treated so badly

Now I’ve been abused with everything but whips

 

I AM A TREE

Being squeezed into mush

I wouldn’t have known this was my fate

When I once had a body so lush

 

I AM A TREE

Bruised, beaten, pounded, and thin

I am in the form of pulp

Now I know I will never win

 

I AM A TREE

Printed on my back is a small fee

My packaging is all I see

What has happened to a beautiful tree?

 

 

 

 

Sail

Water thrashing at my side

Beating me up with all it’s might

Wind pounces at my sails so wide

But I don’t give up without a fight

 

Protecting my sailor is my goal

While slaving at his every will

The main sheet races through its hole 

With water my deck starts to fill

 

His heavy body leans on my rail

The tiller is yanked quickly to starboard

Luckily my efforts do not fail

And again we manage to sail forward

 

    

Purple Bell

Glistening in it’s plastic container

The purple bell lay

Waiting to be brought

Out of PETSMART that day

 

Finally it was taken home

To a family’s new cat

And fastened to the matching collar

The shiny purple bell sat

 

The cat played with her toys

All day and all night

She was allowed to go outside, too

And she almost always stayed in sight

 

One day the cat ran outside

This was normal; the family never worried

But when they rang her dinner bell

She didn’t come back in a hurry

 

They waited and waited for three hours

For their beloved kitty to come ringing

Though there were no signs of her anywhere

They kept imagining her purple bell singing

 

After two whole days without seeing their pet

The father drove around to find her

While the mother stayed home with the kids

But they wouldn’t relax; two nervous they were

 

Father came home a long time later

Carrying tufts of fur in his box for shells

Some threads from her torn up collar

And the still shining purple bell

 

Now her last items sit

On the fireplace’s sill

With the memories of their perfect kitty

And a purple bell, forever still