Human, walking away
Have you not heard of love
Like I have felt for you
Do you not know the meaning
Of loyalty or devotion
Or is it just that your kind
Was never meant to be trusted
Human, weak of heart
Have you forgotten when you planted me
When I was but a little seed
I slept until you came to feed
6, 9, 12, 3, the cycle repeats
The cycle forgets
Human, frail and weak
Do you not see, the first leaf
The first smile, the first gasp
The first gone and flower to show
So you broke my heart
With a flower she could throw
Into dust and trample onwards
She never looked back
Poor human, I saw your broken heart
What a disgrace…
Human, young with a broken heart
I listened to your songs for thy lover’s heart
And I spread my branches all around
My foliage was your armour until you were sound
I called my friends, sparrows and thrushes
And songbirds and gales till your feet touches
A fallen fruit from my bare birches
Human, strong with a hardened heart
You took a blade and cut my bark
Carved your name with the selfish dame
But forgot mine for time to tell
Summer was gone and so were you
You loved beauty in your blues
But all I had were orange hues
Human, old and dying beneath
Tell me was it worth to lose and weep
To chase and run for pelf and fame
Her love stays rotten under your name
You gave me home when I had none
Your bones are charred, your blade numb
Your voice is cracking, your time is done
Human, gone but never forgotten
Lies beneath my feet in the dirt coffin
Unknown to the world but loved by one
The little seedling he saved from the winter’s burn
And so I bend a little low
Till my branches cover over you
And heaps of garlands fall beneath
I weep for a human’s fragility
A glistening periwinkle shines bright
Pitch black, swirling, freezing on sight
Human, gone. Tree, going
The last leaf remembers falling
The birds are gone and the branches bare
Sprinkling fairy dust, winter is here
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