I am a tree today

my thirst is boundless

I ache and sway

my sounds of creaking

limbs get loud in the winter

and I have few visitors

I do now grow like I used to

the colder it is

the more it is weighing

so very heavy on me

in warm months I wake up

but I do not spring up as lively as I used to

and only 3 friends

visit the shade of my

growing new path anymore

many new sounds as I dance

from breeze to breeze and

my parts have become so

used to the passage of time

I sometimes do not flinch

my heart has a break in it

but it allows me to seek

better movement in natural ways

my roots are strong here and

I look up to the light every day

I am a tree today