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Dear sacred tree, you added much life            

To my solitary childhood years.                                  

It was upon your safe, stretching limbs                  

That I blotted out troubles and fears.    



I would swing away around the world,                

Stretch body and imagination                          

Winging away from life's sadnesses                  

To any far-off destination.                                



I climbed your sturdy branches, dear friend,          

All the way to your very summit.                        

I scanned horizons for adventures-                    

Not body nor spirits would plummet                  



Yet now they're coming to cut you down-          

Saws and ropes in hand, ready to start              

To destroy my stalwart childhood friend                  

Who's ever deep-rooted in my heart.