Silence in the Barren Trees

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The trees have long gone silent.  Silent trees

Fill up my forests.  Not just quiet but

Without all sound the leaves on violent trees

Go silent, soundless.  Even winds can cut

Through limbs with leaves and cause no sound because

Of you.  An undertaker’s silence fills

Them now.  The song of birds is gone.  The cause

Of this is not just that their beaks and bills

Won’t open (not to mention silent wings)

But since the birds themselves are dead.  They died

About the time the limbs fell.   Nothing sings

Inside this one-time forest.  God has lied.

  God lied and that has caused this death.  A bolt

    Of lightning caused this silent, silent jolt.

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