Family Tree
FAMILY TREE
A storm was threatening all week
The tree was a warning to see
The wind rocked our tree’s roots weak .
Not our best, but son’s favourite tree.
We’d had a fall-out about his girlfriend.
Not speaking, we were anger-split.
But wind picked up and we had to attend
To the weakness of his favourite.
With ropes and sturdy stakes we fought
We got our bonds tied rightly
My boy climbed up and pulled them taut
He tied our branches tightly
From tree to tree, some to ground.
His father held the straining ropes
While he drove in the stakes around.
Staking everything on slimmest hopes
Furious wind the night throughout
Tree a-straining our ties, our knot.
Next morning our tree’d fallen out
From weakened roots; but we had not .
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