Life of a Tree

By: Tommy Sitz

What a tree

So great and mighty

A tree that sees

Absolutely everything

The dark and the evil

The bright and the great

It knows every animal in this vast array

Every living thing that has used its shade

It knows not its last day

As it is rooted in the middle of May

Here come some men

Not unusual, but uncommon

As it sits there in its mountainous domain

It realizes today will be its last day

The men have come to chop it away