The Orchard by Lhi Collins
~~~~~ authors note; this is based off of the first poem I ever wrote about (and for) another person from about four years ago, called “The Apple Tree” ~~~~~
So the tree sat and she sat
As all trees must do
And every morning the meadow
Was filled with dew
For a year and a half the boy
Stayed with the tree through dark nights
And thunderstorms
And when the leaves the boy loved
So much began to rot, the boy said,
“Soon the weather, will be better”
He could often be found in the
Early morning sun beneath his
Tree, spilling his secrets under
Her dark green canopy.
He learned every solitude was
Beautiful under his tree
One morning, the boy stopped coming.
He found a love of rock & roll
And driving cars so fast he
Found new ways to leave broken
Bridges in the past
The tree was trapped by her roots
and Without her boy
the tree got sick.
That fall her apples rotted off,
And her leaves turned
Black before they fell
Over time, new boys came
To visit the tree
Though they tried, no one could
Replace her boy
One boy stood under the tree
For a whole winter and spring
He whispered into the violets
Blooming under her bare branches
About how he loved a heart
he could not hold
And hoped the tree could not hear
The tree understood,
the tree loved her boy after all
As a new summer began to grow,
Her leaves grew with it. She was so
Happy to see the leaves her boy once
Had loved, she did not mind that
They were late
The lake that ran alongside her
Found itself late one night, as
The moon found its stay almost over,
With a boy washing his hands, his face
His words came out shaky
And his face looked hollow
The tree knew what he meant
Before he said it. He missed his
Tree. His tree felt flowers
In her branches.
The boy did not visit his tree
Everyday anymore, and she felt
Him missing from her, but at
Least less than before.
She watched him go back and forth.
The boy lasts another fall
And another winter. The tree
Hopes he doesn’t run away
When the sun comes to stay.
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