Morning Laments

Archaic and decadent

This tree is a monstrous eyesore in my scenery

And it IS my scenery

You'll not have me for breakfast

Moving about with violent irreverence

It surely IS irreverence

My wit is not beyond you

In being tree you gain wisdom with age

Doesn't wisdom come with age?

I'll have pancakes for breakfast

You only feed from the sunlight that is hate

What kind of sunlight is hate?

I said you will NOT eat me

Looking to swallow a decided person

Enveloping a person!

Each day YOUR sun rises up

Giving you credence to keep moving forward

You like to call it forward!

I eat my meal and ponder

Like all trees, ugly and beautiful the same

You will die, and die the same

The food is gone, not the thoughts

Thoughts so warm and peircing, of watching you go

You will be best to watch go

Best of all trees when you fall to the cold, unforgiving ground

Author's Notes/Comments: 

This is one of my dabblings in the abstract... Extended metaphors and whatnot... Pretty strict meter, until the end (7 11 7)... No rhyme. Neat little punctuation patterns here and there...

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