Shade Tree Lost
It once stood proud with arms spread
welcoming winds to test it's strength
Now it stood in our yard dead
A split carcass with no face
Suffered the battle with this storm
After a decade of just a few scars
Limbs and trunk unmercifully torn
Through bark and wood to the heart
Was a sad mournful day observed
As we loaded the ravaged victim
on the trailer, now it's hearse
For that one way trip to oblivion
Then came the task of the root ball
The final piece that had to be dug
Roots had reached to touched one and all
Wrapping them in a wooden hug
With one last heave and gigantic pull
from machine with chains of iron
The tree gave up it's final hold
on a yard it protected beneath Orion
The lush canopy once seen for miles
Now gone, our landscape devoid of grace
The yard never again to smile
without the song birds trilling brace
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