Sonnet For Restoration Poem by Danny Draper

Wilted weed, if by chance you do succeed,
Disrupting footings, felling walls by roots
Out stretched and reaching as is your need
To search through soil by bones in buried boots,
Turn and raze all these hand fit stones back round
By neglect a wilderness time replete
Unhindered till it's all within the ground
Vaulted humus neath canopy complete.
Will it stand unchallenged this invasion
Defiant in cool shaded harmony,
The dispossessed, peaceful reclamation
Community restored, tranquility?
Wilted weed, downpour invigoration,
Tree of hope, for forest restoration.

Danny Draper
9/11/2016