It was told among the vines

A plan to leave

A cool breeze alone

Doesn't upend the roots below

The things we saw, all of the bark

No sap, all spark

Match to flame

The flame to torch it all apart

Reap what's sown soundly

It's often trails walked

That push the trees to part

From each other's reach

Losing a bit of rind

Then a bit more over time

Thriving limbs out

Still to be eaten up on the inside

Echoed out systems

For each other's love

Turned to competition

When there's limited sun

One need this

The other needs that to fix the situation

One gets its needs

The other decays past recognition.

Hollow, empty, a fossil of its former self

Chipped and splintered

A piece for the other's shelf

If a tree falls and no one is around

Does it make a sound?

It does

Only if it was heard on the way down

It feels strange being tossed to the wind

Will I catch another gust or descend to the end

I shouldn't admit this, but I've been

Peering at the photos

Realizing that the smiles

Are synthesized within

Autumn crown, moves as silk

Floral scent

As if carried in a whisper of wind

And I felt

Like rot, like l'm lost

Peeping orbs, evergreen

Unable to forget why

I was trying to stay inside the copse

Deciduous

Rooted in the sequence of

Shedding what's not needed

Who gives a damn about the grievance

Love language for a weekend

Regret the moment a certain tree moved back in

And couldn't just say "leave" again

Right tree, wrong time

Wrong field, no sign

Some rain, some shine

She grows, I die

A grip too tight to weather through the seasons

Ensnared because I'm sorry for the trees' end

I'm really sorry for the trees' end

11/25 the night this tree felt most alive

July 14 passed by, left me screaming why

10/11 came and went, and with it

I realized that I knew how I wanted my span spent but

There's always going to be another forest to roam

There's always going to be other branches to call home because

May 17th came and went, and with it

Nearly two more rings in these trees came to be laid to rest

And everything in between

Felt like home to me