Poem -

willow tree

When I saw you you were like a willow tree.
Enchanting 
Magical 
Powerful 
Free
I climbed your sturdy branches swinging off them in glee. Not once did I think I'd fall 
Fall of the branches of your brown lushly stalks 
Not once did I think the air you provided me would be my biggest flaw 
Not once did I think the apples you grew that helped newton law would be the fall of me 
Not once
You. you were the tree,you provided for me 
You. Your were tree that gave me food shelter air comfort and peace.
Well until the lightning struck
One day on a warm summer 1918 
I climbed a willow tree 
A willow tree with apples I didn't dare eat
A willow tree with mould I always tried to pick clean 
A willow tree that lied 
A tree that looked perfect to me 
No flimsy branches, easy to snatch leaves 
I climbed a willow tree 
Until I felt as though I was a bird 
As though I could see god through the sun rays 
I saw the sun 
I saw the seas 
I saw a friendship invincible to anything 
But I didn't see that branch 
And I hear the snap of the broken willow tree 
I couldn't see the sun 
I couldn't see the sea 
I couldn't see that friendship we built on craziness and eating weird chillies 
I couldn't see the willow tree 
The willow tree let me fall 
So I fell to my death 
Blood hydrated the roots of the willow tree 
Blood hydrated the roots of the willow tree
Maybe I shouldn't have climbed the willow tree.

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