Saturday, July 8, 2023

The Barren Tree

 

How hast thou bore oh lush filled tree

quite full awash with leaves

abundant fruit that bend below

thy branches striking breeze


But then alas the storm assailed

brought havoc on thy bough

and stripped thee of thy canopy

the fruit that thou endowed


How didst thy leaves but go away

and make thy branches bare

the poachers took them one by one

without a note of care


And though thou tried both day and night

produce yet more supply

they plucked them over once again

saw not the tears thou cried


Now barren lone cast by thyself

with all those plucked far gone

to seek another tree to gut

left thou to be withdrawn


 





 

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