Voice Of A Tree After Being Cut Down Poem by Lady of the Trees

I was a sapling once
with my whole life ahead of me.

I felt the kiss of the warm sunlight.
I gratefully drank in the gentle rain.
I swayed with the rhythm of the wind.

The sap of life
coursed through my veins.

I lived!

Though cut down in my prime,
remember me as I was -
a living vibrant being.

And when you think of me,
think of my fellow trees
who are living still,
in the light,
and the rain,
and the wind.