Hello tree,
I was a teenager when I first appreciated you.
Your greens were greener then,
But then my hair was thicker
So I shouldn’t compare
Glass houses and all that.

The cough is getting worse,
Breathing-once a silent unnoticed activity
Punctuating the stillness between sentences
Now a cacophony of rasps and gurgles
Such an undertak-… a challenge
(Let’s avoid some words).

You were stillness
A Well of depthless inactivity
Amongst the motion
Frenetic concentration
Blue dress staring at lit screens
Beside you
Not involving you
Your stillness a stark wall
Of non-involvement

We shared an eclipse,
Once in a lifetime
The light fails to shine when it should be shining,
We all laugh at the idiosyncrasy of hoping for a cloudless day
on a day momentarily synonymous with night,
Yet such is the cosmic wrong of the moment,
Indisputable observations of
Birds stilling their song
Insects cease their chirp and
Humans stare
Our primitive ancestors
Watch from modern eyes.