Dead trees New logs Ready for the burning Within A heavy yearning For heat Forests Now deplete Can't see the wood For the trees A fundamentally Human disease The logs Float along Like driftwood Awaiting The lick, and flick Of flames Where soon They will be no more Than ashes Floating Along the cool Autumnal air Forgotten whispers of smoke That nobody spoke Of the dry wood Now drifted Into shifted echoes Of their afterlife Floating on the air Of our existence