This Tree - a poem

This Tree

This tree has lived
through much history.

Countless souls
have come and gone
while it has stood still.

Many battles and wars
have been fought
right beside it
that have long ceased
along with much
of their meaning.

Multitudes of animals
have hurried past it,
their footprints and tracks
having long disappeared.

And when it had become 
part of a park,
many people had enjoyed
it's beauty and serenity.

Yet throughout this history
it's life has never been 
affected quite directly,
but now the time has come,
a sad time for the tree I'm sure,
when it must become afraid,
of the cruelty of the axe,
the power of the saw.



This poem appears among twenty-five others in my book Something to Believe In, available at iUniverse, Chapters Indigo, and Amazon (USA, Canada, & UK).

Thank you, 

Bolko Rawicz