Saturday, April 1, 2023

These Trees Have No Bark ~ Saturday, April 1, 2023

Now, I say goodbye.

I am only three years old.

Yet, I cannot speak.

Of this world, I know

Nothing, the words I must use

To describe the past.

Wicked is my soul

To orbit the gravity

Of flames without spark.

I am a candle.

A memory caught in time

To console the weak.

Soon, the boy will grow.

No longer, just three years old

But an older man.

As I grow older

I learn the language, the words

Not of the outcast.

Yes, while in exile

From the kingdom of my birth,

These trees have no bark.

Granted no reprieve

I cannot return back home.

But live in exile.

Older and wiser.

As I learn philosophy.

This life, I must span.

Objects of reason

Ideas, a child never knows

But, deep in my gut.

Different in difference.

Once, a small boy. I stand out.

Others instill doubt.

Burdened with the weight

Of the universe, my back

Faces the first cut.

Yes, I am a slave.

Born a prince in my homeland.

How to span the route?

Envy the others

Who know nothing of hardship.

This life, full of guile.

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