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I Would Be---Wood

"I Would Be....WOOD"


   "Knock On Me!" or more correct "Knock On WOOD!" You've probably said that and rapped your knuckles against me while saying it! I know you've knocked on me many times in your life for I am your front door, back door, side door, closet door and every door in your house!
    
    I originate as a seed in the Earth! I start out in life as a fully grown tree! Tall, stately, solid and something for every eye to see! I am Oak, I am Elm, I am Pine, I am Redwood! I am aromatic Cedar! Yes, like those Cedars of Lebanon that Solomon used to build the first Tabernacle! I have been used to make rafts, canoes, boats , and one of my shining glory's was when I was made into an Ark by a man named Noah and I was with he and his family for 40 days and 40 nights of some very heavy rains!....Yes, I was there! 
    
    I was made into a Trojan Horse and am forever in history! George Washington, yes the first President of these United States, had a mouthful of me! Yes, he had wooden dentures! Imagine that...made of "WOOD!"

    I do have many descriptive names! I am Mahogany, Teak, Birch, Knotty Pine! I am Bamboo, Plywood and Balsa! I am your furniture, your houses, both the inner and outer frames! You walk all over me for there I am again.....your floor! 
    
    I am firewood! Bonfires and fireplaces burn so much brighter when I am added! That's the other thing...when Fire and I combine, there is not much any one can do to stop us from growing and spreading! It can be controlled though by a lot of Water!  In alchemy I am considered the parent of Fire and the child of Water! There's even a type of alcohol named after me!

   "How much "WOOD" could a WOOD chuck chuck.....!" I know you've heard that one about me too! Although I have wondered how much he could!....and another thing...What's a chuck?" 

    I'm everywhere! I am in cars, jewelry, personal products! If you use a pencil, your using me! When you're writing on paper there I am in another version! I am sticks, staffs, bows and arrows! 

    Get this....before other materials were used I was used to enclose deceased human beings in boxes made from me and then put back into the earth where I originated from! Imagine that! I was into recycling before any one really knew what recycling was!

   I am everywhere! Everywhere you look you will see me! 

   Pirates used to make people walk a plank of me and fall into the ocean! I had nothing to do with that! Sometimes they'd toss me into the ocean when through!

   I am really into music! I am acoustic guitars, violins, bass fiddles, pianos, drums and flutes! I was the original drum!

   Basketballs dribble on me all the time! I am bleachers, I was the original football goalposts and the original baskets for basketball! Yeah, I'm into sports! Baseball bats, hockey sticks, cricket bats.

   If you've ever had me for a splinter, you've never forgotten me or how I got there!

   The Wright Brothers flew a craft made out of me at Kitty Hawk! It was a successful flight! Howard Hughes flew a version made also out of me! He only flew the "Spruce Goose" once but we did fly! When they went to "METAL" I was shut out of the aircraft business! I don't think anyone wants to fly in a wooden plane anymore!

   I was even used in a Crucifixion once for three people at the same time! The One in the middle must've been somebody really special! I heard I was made especially for Him! I was made into a Cross! A "WOODEN" Cross! I heard that after they took Him off of me, they put Him in a stone tomb and three days later they couldn't find Him! He was up and gone! Good for Him because I didn't care for being used like that in the first place! He and I are like One! He and me...a "WOODEN" Cross!

So I've been here for a very long time! I've seen it all, done everything and been everything else included! I've been in this life since forever and will be here evermore!
Knock on your nearest door and say hello to me!
I Would Be ....."WOOD!"



WTA-IV  3/30/2016

Copyright © Walter T. Ashe | Year Posted 2016

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