This Poem was Submitted By: Gary C Daniels On Date: 2000-08-01 17:18:34 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!

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Rain Tree

In our beginnings were but heaven and earth; you, the sky (I knew not birth) a seed was I in a womb of dirt and then you cried and I did burst forth to be a tree! Four hundred years I longed and grew your rains of tears, my conscious knew surpassed my fears to touch your blue silken face-- the sky! Each year I grew above the force of fear.  I knew I did divorce the earth  and she grew cold, remorse; but, I stood firm-- I knew the course to grow was only up! Yet you seemed sad to watch this growth. It drove you mad to know that both you and I would be the most distant from the earth. So tears you cried but they did just decrease the sky, increase the lust my limbs could all but touch you-- the distant sky! But then one day I realized that you were not so distant sky, but merely all I dreamed to be; so why could I not see. . . That four hundred years were much to be an ever-striving, longing tree of life.  The sky chose not to be so distant, but surrounded me with this, her patient breeze. And with this came a rapid growth; a hundred feet and I did poke a hole into the sky. And as this came to pass, I heard the howling winds, a screaming bird (I thought); but, 'twas the sky. You, the sky, and I, a tree separation can there never be for from your pain, life-giving rain that makes another tree.

Copyright © August 2000 Gary C Daniels


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