Trees

Just another perspective to a commonly seen human.

Happy Birthday
Small tree!
Like the last one,
Your gift
Is a ring
That you will never see
Until
You are killed
On your inevitable
Death
Day.

The wind’s not too bad!
Just ignore it!
You might lose your sanity,
But that’s fine!
At least your working hard
To keep the rest of us alive!
Just ignore it’s howling!
You just have to grow up,
Then you can silence the winds!
Just you wait!

“The other trees are bigger than you!”
“They are stronger!”
“They have more animals!”
“They are better!”
The trees shakes, dead leaves floating to the ground.
What if
It is true?
If what the wind says is true?
The tree, devistated, writes a sign and nails it into herself.
“Please end my suffering”
A local farmer comes by, seeing the sign.
She smiles at the tree and sits by her roots.
The tree is enraged.
The woman just ignores the sign and plopped down on her roots!
But the woman looked peaceful, so the tree settles down and watches him.
The farmer does this everyday for the next few years, sitting next to the tree and talking to the tree. Telling her stories. It became the joy of her days.
Towards the end of both the tree and the farmer’s life, the farmer said, “I love you”
The tree couldn’t speak, but ruffled her branches so a shower of pink leaves fell on the farmer.
So, in the peak of the sunset on that warm day, they died,
Side by side,
Overridden
With love.

Author's Note

Should I make more of these types of stories?

Reviews

[Octi]

Personally, I would say make more. I love it.

I read it the first time and I loved the twist at the end.

I read it the second time and saw it as a metaphor for depression. The first couple lines are the early childhood where everyone is carefree. The next bit was when the person is depressed and others are encouraging them and trying to help them. The last bit was a way for a person to overcome or push aside depression to go back to a semi-normal life.

I'm sure there are many other metaphors that people could come up with, but that was the one I saw.

Very well written. I did find one mistake. "But the woman looked peaceful, so the tree settles down and watches him." You described the farmer as a female, and in the sentence you have "woman". The "him" should be a "her".