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Sappy Trees

from Stitched Together [EP] by Jerry Lehr

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A gift poem for Valentine's day 2022

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Before you arrived I was dying in the sand
Drained in the desert a withering plant
You've always been one to keep flowers alive
Watered me daily and helped me survive
I know you are beautiful and you won't see
You only put water and love into me
I grew and regrew you snipped off the bad
You gave me some seeds and then you called me a dad

You watered with love I guess you did it too much
I grew too tall and fell out of touch
I've drained you of water and so have your seeds
We used your resources and are killing a tree
You could in this ending have left to the forest
To find a new tree to help you to flourish
I wanted to save you and all that I want
Is to always repay you not in gold but just love

I'll water you daily I'll trim off the bad
You were a beautiful mother but now we are sad
Through storms and Tsunamis through wild forest fires
We can't be burned up and we will not expire
Until we are old and we grow to a whisper
Until we're forgotten or rotten and withered
Our bruises will heal but stay a reminder
We've grown through it all stronger and wiser

I can't grow without you I can't live and be
I want to grow with you for others to see
And when we are old our seeds will remember
Our fruits will be eaten our rings will end here
Some will make ashes and soil when perished
We can make paper for others to cherish
Our fruits will make colors our roots will make covers
We'll be here forever for poets and lovers

From keepsakes and photos to letters for others
For more beautiful children with beautiful mothers
See there's reasons to grow though you don't see the sky
We'll stay here forever even when we die
So before we grow old and before we grow wiser
I promise to help you to grow even brighter
Through winter and summer and all of the weather
Two trees together forever and ever

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from Stitched Together [EP], released August 6, 2023

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