Redwood Tree

amazing plant life form endangered species, giants found only in california

Ponderous tall redwood tree
How does water get up
Your 300 foot height?
Your bark so red and smooth
I would like to sleep at your very top
And see 360 degrees panoramically
Nestled in your soft redwood needles
High
I would dream of when you sprouted
From a cone seed years 
Before 
Christ walked the earth
A tiny seed 
Grew so majestically
I would wish to hear you
Speak and tell me
What you saw when men
Came in droves 
And wagons
With sharp toothed steel saws 
To cut your family members down
I would feel your tears
And your sorrowful heart
As you stood defenseless
Your loved ones headless
Only stumps remaining
Withstanding time
As silent testimony of man’s
Pillage 
All for your beautiful redwood
Flesh
And now pollution 
And drought threaten you
I hope and pray you survive
Extinction threats
And live for all posterity
Of mankind to see
Your amazing splendor
Stand so tall
Defying gravity
Earthquake and winds
No other tree upon this earth
Stands so tall and wide
At girth
How dare a man cut you down
And not regret conviction’s frown