Nature's Lament

With the water's edge, mother nature is receding.
The world, once covered in life, struck by man.
Spiraling in to darkness, the trees are bleeding,
and mourning their brothers, who couldn't have ran.

Trees fall in the forest, leaving no sound,
with no one to hear them, almost like they're dreaming.
Their roots whither and the fires burn all around.
They have no voices, but they will continue screaming!

And at the end of all the world's time,
the eldest tree will stand tall and gaze upon
the barren land, leaves falling, blending with nature's rhyme.
The eldest tree will plant a seed, and the world will go on.

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Written on August 22, 2011 by B.S. Meyers

(Original Post on August 22, 2011 at: http://dft.ba/-BSMeyers90 )