Memories lay
Deep within
Their myriad roots
Their soiled souls
Hidden echoes
Of their past glories
That nurtured future generations
Of growth
But things had changed
As trees
Were being slaughtered en masse
As creatures
With razor teeth
Tore into their flesh
And down they fell
This was only the beginning
As soon after this
They shed sawdust tears
In disdain, and screaming pain
They were tortured
And torn
From mother earth
They told each other
Of a similar tell
Of trees, that once stood proud
Now, that fell
At first, a great mourning
As trees shook their limbs
In disbelief
Followed by
This terrible grief
At hearts, that had been cut to pieces
Then, as one
They uprooted
And marched up into the sky
And carried along
By a kindly wind
Moved to another world
Planet Earth became bare
As its inhabitants
could no longer breathe
Clean, fresh, life giving air
by Jemia