By believe Date: 2002 Nov 11 Comment on this Work [[2002.11.11.04.30.3325]] |
can one see in the timelessness of a tree life passin slowly by out of mind and gales but instant makes summers and autumn but flickers by while winter is time for sleep there is a tree within my thoughts that has been there for me forever it seems for it has grown and thickened along with i planted so early in my spring yet still it bears its scares for all its young life of a fire that consumed its resting place but still it survived, flourished for all that burn marks slow to heal but healed now long since with trace scars to mark the year of that an of a heart carved in its side initials of you and i grown taller, grown old where once my hand could reach so easy from the time i carved so simple thing yet still shows the time i took in its make the care of each letter i carved no one could ever know of the sadness that day none but this tree and i yet to find this my mark i almost had to climb this day for the tree has grown and brought our initials to the sky this tree with the history of i that will survive long past my time i hunker slow my knees so old heh hear them creak as i squat to sit and bring out a cheese sandwich like so long ago to sit with my back against my tree and watch the world from here go by remembering the dreams i once had of so many things i begin once more to speak to the tree of life my friend for so many years to tell it stories of you once more and a tear softly forms for all the sadness times i find again to my surprise this tree becomes once more my backbone to the world |