“The Bradford Pear Tree of Club Lake Trail” copyright 2004, a lost poem recovered, preview poem, “Passion Amidst Apathy” This Poem is Dedicated to the Storm Victims of North Texas.

  

“Why do you stare at me?”

A Pear Tree am I

unchanged by the lost of a part of me.

I am the same

nothing has changed

there is just less of me.

 

Why do you stare a me

as you pass?

Am I so different then before?

 

I still smell the air

feel the sky

and warm myself in the sun of day

soak the rain of day

amidst the storms that roll into my horizon.

 

I still dream of dreams

yet to come

for I am and still am

the mighty Bradford Pear Tree of Club Lake Trail.

 

I was taller

fuller and prouder

than I am now

but still the Bradford Pear.

 

The tree you looked upon each day

with such pride.

Have I changed so much from those days

when you looked so lovingly at me?

 

The change came slowly over the years.

Worms chewed in the joy of my wood

seeking the essence of me.

 

I grew

but as each leaf fell

I became closer to my death.

 

The death of cut wood and broken twigs

laid upon a ground now unknown to me.

What changed me so quickly and without warning?

 

It was shortly after midnight

the storm came.

Wind tearing at the very soul of me.

 

Wind ripping my inner part out

to lay useless

and with only partial life upon the ground.

 

I am still the same

the Bradford Pear

I live

I breathe

I sun

even with fuller leaves

than before.

 

Should you now love me less

for not being as powerful

and mighty as before?

 

I love you no less

for you see

I am

and will always be 

your Bradford Pear Tree of Club Lake Trail. 

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“The Bradford Pear Tree of Club Lake Trail” copyright 2004, a lost poem recovered, preview poem, “Passion Amidst Apathy” This Poem is Dedicated to the Storm Victims of North Texas.

  

“Why do you stare at me?”

A Pear Tree am I

unchanged by the lost of a part of me.

I am the same

nothing has changed

there is just less of me.

 

Why do you stare a me

as you pass?

Am I so different then before?

 

I still smell the air

feel the sky

and warm myself in the sun of day

soak the rain of day

amidst the storms that roll into my horizon.

 

I still dream of dreams

yet to come

for I am and still am

the mighty Bradford Pear Tree of Club Lake Trail.

 

I was taller

fuller and prouder

than I am now

but still the Bradford Pear.

 

The tree you looked upon each day

with such pride.

Have I changed so much from those days

when you looked so lovingly at me?

 

The change came slowly over the years.

Worms chewed in the joy of my wood

seeking the essence of me.

 

I grew

but as each leaf fell

I became closer to my death.

 

The death of cut wood and broken twigs

laid upon a ground now unknown to me.

What changed me so quickly and without warning?

 

It was shortly after midnight

the storm came.

Wind tearing at the very soul of me.

 

Wind ripping my inner part out

to lay useless

and with only partial life upon the ground.

 

I am still the same

the Bradford Pear

I live

I breathe

I sun

even with fuller leaves

than before.

 

Should you now love me less

for not being as powerful

and mighty as before?

 

I love you no less

for you see

I am

and will always be 

your Bradford Pear Tree of Club Lake Trail. 

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