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cherry tree

Linda M. Crate

rigor mortis
already
set in
because you have
died before your time
forgot what your
heart and soul were used for
so you forfeited both
to drink of the
devil’s wine,
and as such you could only
ever know longing and thirst but
never kindness nor compassion or truth;
you have every halo of your father’s
lies clinging to the lapel of your
wings
just another fallen angel in a world of darkness
struggling to remember light—
you told me that you’d save me like the heroes
do in novels,
but i doubted your authenticity;
so then you said that you loved me and i had to stay
because you knew that i was rooted to your
need that i loved you with all my
strength
forgot myself for a moment and made
you a god—
i became the cherry tree,
and you were george washington
chopping me down
into the winds of oblivion.

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