startling banals
17 October 2007
Tree
I am a tree-
Not the tender seedling
Young, vulnerable
Nor the supple sapling
Flirting, flaunting
Greenery in the wind.
I am a tree-
I am a tree-
Broken, gnarled
Rooted fingers
Clutching desperately to my soil.
Battered, bruised shoots
Struggling fiercely towards the sun.
I am the tree
You chopped.
-Colleen Smith-Brown
Not the tender seedling
Young, vulnerable
Nor the supple sapling
Flirting, flaunting
Greenery in the wind.
I am a tree-
I am a tree-
Broken, gnarled
Rooted fingers
Clutching desperately to my soil.
Battered, bruised shoots
Struggling fiercely towards the sun.
I am the tree
You chopped.
-Colleen Smith-Brown