Trees Are Like Humans

Like humans have a life, Although people don’t face a murder charge For hacking them down. Like humans indulge in strife But don’t wear their animosities like a barge Nor noise them in the town. Like man, parade a breathing mechanism, Though it is carbon dioxide they cherish And like him answers an organism Granted that they don’t oxygen relish. No tree ever halts the knives About to be driven into its bark Nor mourns their piteously lost lives To axes operating before dark; Scarcely panicked by wanton disturbance, The very contrast of African Presidents in countenance. Above King David cutting gallantry That earns a subject panegyric commentary… The monarch by his Absalom was mortally scared; The barks of all trees are to their enemies bared.