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A Tree

There is a beautiful glade
Covered in white roses
Shimmering in the sunlight
Ranks of tall trees with golden leaves
Surround the glade
Like Nature's Colosseum
And form a glittering canopy
Sunlight gleams through in patches
Forming Nature’s quilt
Beyond this forest of golden trees lies
A behemoth mountain range
Stretching beyond sight
Reaching always to the azure sky
With their snowy fingertips
In this glade lies a small pond
Fed by a silvery mountain stream
A pond of crystal clear waters
Reflect all around it
Like a mirror of liquid diamond
And in it swim fish of all colours
Scales glimmering and flashing
As they dance nimbly about
A rock juts out on the side of the pond
An ancient rock
Standing as a stalwart guardian
Over his pond
And in the center of this beautiful glade
Stands a tree
A tall tree, taller than all others by far
Stretching above the canopy of golden leaves
Rivaling even the impossibly high mountains
A trunk as wide as life itself
Bark covered in a vivid green moss
Spiraling upwards like Nature's sash
Leaves as wide and long as hope
Gently falling one at a time
A lifelong fall
As they swing back and forth
A fall, or a dance?
To finally find rest on the soft quilt of white roses
This tree stands surrounded by this glade
This glade surrounded by a forest of golden trees
Surrounded in turn by a mountain range
All hidden
Within such a small and fragile thing as a
Soul.

Written at 2:00 pm on 04/05/2015.

L.J. Slaferek

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