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C.R.S., P.W.W., Continuation of Death

C.R.S., P.W.W., Continuation of Death

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His tree is here.  His tree is here.  Long years

Before we met, the redwood soared above

Our heights, combined, and now long years, long tears

(Much later) it is lasting past his love.

The lone dwarf acer that I planted for

His memory still moves numbly in the breeze

Beneath my bedroom window.  Long before

He kissed my life away with just on tease

The acers have been turning colors in

The spring, the summer and the fall like he

Has turned to death.  This makes his greatest sin.

The trees and I now face the same, we three.

  The acer turns from bare to darkened red

   

    And then to flame in autumn.  Feel the dread.

  Charles the tree surgeon 

~ Phillip Whidden

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