I Am a Tree

I was hoping for just a caress or maybe a stroke but all I got was noises, smoke, and restless rebuff I was wishing for a tree hugger who would place their arms around me and love me but all I got was misaligned baseballs and tramples My limbs expand far and wide and my roots are deep, part of everything down under still they walk around as if I don't even exist as if I'm just a stump, standing there like a bump on a log I get moonstruck at night by the beauty of the sky and warmed by the sun when the dawn arrives at will I rejoice at the sound of a child's laughter, or when someone takes a nap beneath my full branches. I am a tree who loves people, creatures and things, even a misaligned baseballs, better that then nothing at all.