A Sign in Winter
We should have seen it coming
The storm had called ahead
We never got the message
We got the tree instead.
We knew it was too tall
But we loved it just the same
We loved it every season
until this winter came.
No wait! we still loved it
like a child we knew could hurt us
But this was just a tree, right?
One that would never desert us.
Our children climbed its branches
We sliced its limbs for Christmas decor
Dead limbs insulated the garden
Yet, still we asked for more.
More shade! Grow Taller!
We need privacy, please grow wider!
We created this monolithic spruce
And moved in right beside her.
Then winter winds grew stronger
This year, God added rain,
sleet and snow and loaded limbs
The big tree was in pain.
It took the wind, it took the snow
It took all that it could bear
Then came the gust that knocked it down
Now dead, we all despair.
We mourned for all the tree had given
But even strong winds abate
We went outside to see what was left
and decide the big trees fate.
Thanksgivings close, and Christmas too
Those branches will make decorating fun
Perhaps we'll sell the lumber
Next spring, we'll plant a new one.
Sometimes we miss the one thing close
That God had blessed and made.
We move on too fast, ne'er stop to grieve
Until we need the shade.
There is no moral, no secret plan
Just read this and if you please
Remember God made the forest
But man cut down the trees.
FTC - 11/19/14
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