Spectral trees

The haunting silhouettes

Of spectral trees remind me of

How alone you stood

With your arms reaching skyward

Hoping even for the slightest fall of rain

Or touch of the softest breeze

To soothe the lonely heart within

You were force to bury

Deep beneath your skin

In a world that so sadly

Never really saw

The deeper story hidden within

Your suffering

Was this your strange destiny

To live a life where

So many passed you by

Without a glance

Treating you as if

You did not even exist?

And yet on those dark and silent nights

When you so quietly cried

I know the whole of nature

Felt you bleed

Echoing in sympathy

With your shattered betrayal

A tragic destiny

And in those most lonely of moments

The dark forces of love

Held your wounded spirit

Close

Even as the whole world

Fell asleep

Passing you

And your suffering by

As if within a frozen trance

Never offering your soul

The slightest glance