Beneath your shards of flaking skinI admire your stretching arms
Spanning the blue sky about you
In an embrace of time.
You make my eyes shine,
They catch the sun as I look up at you;
Your girth makes me feel slender
As a willow, next to you
I am tiny and bright
And wondering.
Imposing giant, your feet
Reach far below mine, your crown
Watches my hair
Blowing in a lower breeze.
You've weathered days I cannot fathom
Storms that would leave me shivering
If given sway.
But while you taste the sky
I am rooted,
While you groan, I laugh.
For you, days melt into days,
Snow and mud about your trunk
Until you splinter, never knowing
Today, or me, or Sabbath.
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