The Tree

Day left the world too soon to say goodbye

Yet as I wandered 'lone and 'fraid to see

Heav'nly curtains revealed a dusky sky

And 'neath its vastness stood a single tree

Its branches bare and limbs gnarled with age

Strove to pierce the air and breach the gap

'Twixt life and death but perished in the stage

Of trying and so dying stopped and snapped

As I approached I wondered at the plight

And endless drive to win and to survive

That all creatures living in dark or light

Will simply fight tonight to stay alive

I think no ma'er the struggle of today

Still sorrow on the morrow goes away