Psalm of the Weeping Willow Tree
Oh dear earth, the psalm of the willow dredge,
whose angles, toil amidst the waters' edge;
Her posture is sorrow's ally,
her form a perpetual sigh;
She stands speechless,
disheartened grieving priestess,
beside the snail-paced river;
Her leaves are the green tears quiver,
of a thousand unnamed sorry sorts;
Each quiver in the breeze distorts,
a saga of a hurt heart that dares;
Her arms, a cascade of emerald hair,
skimming the face of the river,
to wash the stains of a time giver,
from the current’s infinity flowed;
She knows of the sirens that hold,
the harps wilted muted upon her tree;
She brooks the duty of their memory,
an eyewitness to the anguish of Zion's ploy;
The waft in her boughs not songs of joy,
but the wails of a woe so deep,
honors the age-old stones weep;
She offers a nice shady canopy,
for those who seek out a refugee,
from the sun’s harsh shedding;
Her shade is a balm for the grieving,
quiet enclosure for the rested souls;
Beneath her flowing aplenty boughs,
loads are sans a word shared;
She holds the space for despair,
a loyal friend who will not bend;
Her strengths are not at all sand,
tall and defiant, standing
but in their best yielding;
She bends, sways, weeps bleak
—but she does not dare break;
Her roots anchor her deeply,
in the moisten earth steeply,
a testament that despair soundly,
can root a life more profoundly;
And so, bless the weeping willow,
the tree of tender lament swallow;
In her hushed weeping trails,
she teaches us the grace of Ails;
That a broken heart can still shelter,
and a spirit crushed can cell her;
And that even in the long darkness,
one can stand and still offer solace,
woe be gone and freed from strife,
rooted deeply in the river of life.
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