In Heartwood Forrest

Subtle comes the mourning In light laced with night Like concentric circles forming In the Forrest's biography of life For children grow in truth like trees It's lesson is wisdom's offering Spiral layer of night and day Concealed an annual weathering In heartwood forest you were raised By its protection you survived Though it is dead this central wood At your core does it reside Tiny saplings like newborn cries Sunlight tapping your tender leaves Tears turned sugar transformed you thrive For the sweet lifeblood you need When something dies it's natural Of sorrow to be prone I'll follow the path of your tears your anchor Through the storm I'll not leave you alone For I am your taproot in rocky soil I'll hold you secure as you grow Take your tears and turn them sugar Photosynthesis of life to bestow Your Daddy was your heartwood I know you mourn at his stone Though Mommies leaves dawn new colors I'll teach you to grow your own For when he died your sapwood With tears like resin filled For from his bedded seed you came A new tree with heartwood instilled Under my branches my son you are planted And Daddy's new home is our sky Together we will shade you and light your way Stretching my roots to hold yours while you cry Someday when life's rings they gather Hidden under your fortress of bark You'll know the storms I too have weathered In this silent breaking of my heart