Jaded

Death soon becomes us or so they say Beauty and passion are taken away

Turn away bleeding they banish your soul

No longer forgiven deception untold

Follow the streetlights to suffering and pain

Anguish stained teardrops will fade with the rain

Jealousy within us is coupled with hate

Forces of nature controlling our fate

Lonely souls beckon, the future so blind

Suffer the children because of our kind

No understanding of all that we’ve done

We’ll never bear witness to the beasts we’ve become

The shadows surround us like angels of death

Our heartbeats are fading with every breath

Now here in the silence we close our eyes tight

We’ll sleep til forever and follow the light

Our tears have all fallen, this sorrows our own

Another soul broken now we’re all alone

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I Miss Being a Tree

The rain fell gently all over me, reminding me of the past. It felt cool on my dry faded skin. Then the sun came out from behind the clouds, drying me off. I felt the cold hard concrete holding me in place and a breeze gently passing me. All around me, others just like me, stood like cookie cutter statues all in a row. We all shared the same sadness and longing for home. A home we would never see again.

I tried not to think about my last day there but sometimes i could still hear the sound of the saw cutting through my body. Then that almighty crash as i fell to the ground, surrounded by my friends. I wondered if they had suffered a similar fate to me. I had reached out to those nearest to me when i felt the first blow. My life energy had surged from my roots and into theirs, passing along my strength to help them grow even stronger.

Now i could no longer feed from the earth that had surrounded my roots. I could never again soak up the rain or breathe in the air. My limbs had all been removed so i couldnt offer shade or a home for wildlife anymore. My bark had been stripped away, leaving my trunk exposed. I would no longer grow any closer to the sky. My only purpose now, was to serve as a place for things to be hung. A lifeless ghost of my former green glory. Never to bloom again.