Shards - 16 - Trees And The Taste Of Shadow
Update: 2018-08-23
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Trees and The Taste of Shadow
When a tree falls
how can its shadow stand?
And yet
in the forest behind our eyes
shadows stretch
far into the future.
Even when
the tree has long since fallen
and rotted and returned
to the fecund, hungry soil of history;
even when
the sun, with its golden tongue,
is licking the ridges of mountains
memories are longer than shadows.
And the taste of darkness
is a sharp, metallic tang
that can,
with enough swings,
cut right through
the most deep-rooted loves
and thick-trunked family.
In shadow,
bare dirt
pushes back the greener grass.
In shadow,
consoling moss softens the edges.
But what does this mean
for the forest behind our eyes?
You tell me for once!
I’m sick of walking these paths,
pulling answers from trees
like cicada shells.
Tell me –
this shadow
these trees
what does it all mean?
When a tree falls
how can its shadow stand?
And yet
in the forest behind our eyes
shadows stretch
far into the future.
Even when
the tree has long since fallen
and rotted and returned
to the fecund, hungry soil of history;
even when
the sun, with its golden tongue,
is licking the ridges of mountains
memories are longer than shadows.
And the taste of darkness
is a sharp, metallic tang
that can,
with enough swings,
cut right through
the most deep-rooted loves
and thick-trunked family.
In shadow,
bare dirt
pushes back the greener grass.
In shadow,
consoling moss softens the edges.
But what does this mean
for the forest behind our eyes?
You tell me for once!
I’m sick of walking these paths,
pulling answers from trees
like cicada shells.
Tell me –
this shadow
these trees
what does it all mean?
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