Requiem

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A log of discarded wood.

That was all it ever was.

Lying in a lush green meadow,

flowers blooming all around it.

The soft breeze of spring would

brush past it and tickle it playfully.

Its days would go dreaming of the time

it was a majestic tree in this very place.

He would bear juicy fruits for the weary and the hungry.

Spread out its branches sprinkled with leaves

and sway them around in the playful breeze

offering relief to the men and animals from the hot summer sun.

It was a glorious time of life.

Friends and family would lay under its shade,

children would climb its highest of branches and

pluck the most unreachable fruits

as it would bear them in its arms like its own.

Squirrels would store their nuts in its body

and it would keep them safe like little secrets.

Lying in the sun like an ancient war hero,

eyes with a fleeting glint of the grand history

they endured but the body wrinkled and withered by the sun and the rain.

Years of storms had left it weak but

they had been unable to take its pride away.

All its life, everyone drew nourishment, relief, strength

and love from it till they skinned it to its bone,

took its heart out and hacked its limbs away

for their selfish motives.

They uprooted it from the very place

where it was born and raised with love and care,

where it spread itself and blossomed the meadow

and adorned it and where it will now be buried

and consumed till every bit of its body has given strength to a new life.
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