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your dad built a tree house
and you would go up there
to sketch and read.

when you brought friends over,
you would place a picnic mat
under the shades.

you were a teen
and i peered through my drapes
and saw you carving hearts on the barks.

pretty soon love began to take roots  
so you and the boy were kissing
and the night trees had never been so still.

time and foliage:
today, there is a swing
and your toddler tries it for the first time.

how i want them.
how i want your trees.


© 08.May.2015 :house:


:bulletblue: do you have a favorite tree? does it bring back any bittersweet memory?
:bulletblue: i would climb guava trees when i was a child. those trees did not belong to anyone. and there was a coconut tree, my grandpa used to climb it.
:bulletblue: if you have read are you prayerful?, you would notice this is sort of part two.
:bulletblue: i appreciate every single form of support that i've been getting.  


:iconthankyouscript1::iconthankyouscript2::iconthankyouscript3: :iconhearthugplz:

:bulletblue: 05.17.15 the dreaming corner vol.3 by LadyYume
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Eremitik's avatar
I believe, that one day, you will have a tree of your own.

This is one of those poems that overshadows everything I want to say- nothing seems sufficient to express exactly how much impact those last two verses had on me.

My favorite tree was a large Hemlock in my Grandmothers backyard. It was the tallest tree in the neighborhood, standing guard over her house and pool. My brothers and I would climb to its very tip, where the trunk was little more than six inches in diameter. It felt as if we were atop the world.