The Tree

1.

Here is a tree hoping

to be struck by lightening. 

It seeks relief from these dog days, 

when more water is rushing away than

is rushing toward it.  The river is leaving;

the tree can not. 

The tree is feeling invisible, to everything

Save the sun. 

Once a friend, the sun is now a foe. 

Isn’t dehydration, under the summer sun,

the worst way to die?

Here is a tree wanting

to flee from life, it was wanting to

flee from suffering, until she came into its life.