This Poem was Submitted By: David Holstein On Date: 2002-10-22 12:57:47 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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Upwards

The tree is sharp. Its jagged bark can scrape My naked skin. My foot, each toe a grape, A swollen olive, plump and marked with life  Against the side, the branch, the beast of strife. And upwards, I scratch. My hands, a knotted wood Erupting, chipped and frigid. Still, I could. The earth is for the meek. With strength I tighten, And heed my knuckle’s sweat; my palm’s lighten. I feel my hands begin to whither. Age Rockets through me. I grip, but I engage The trunk’s resistant skin.  I seek to reach For everything, react and summit. And breach. I want the green. The way it weighs me blind. Its heavy breath, a shade, a sigh. I find Another branch, ascend, oh I ascend To where the light blows in: the top, the end. 

Copyright © October 2002 David Holstein


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