The Weeping Willow wept…the Wisteria so crept
And the moon and the sun exchanged fleeting glances
One half the world flexed its arms, the other half just slept
The scorpion in desert sun performed its daily dances
Oceans did both rise and fall; when was time they failed?
An old man shining shoes would soon shine shoes no more
From distant port comes the report of a ship that sailed
The empty stand now removed from alley by the store
A woodpecker with broken nose filed a claim today
Mrs. Barker took a bath then died of heart attack
Barren Sudan saw young woman caught up in the fray
Young man, thin and wan, filled his lungs with crack
Once pristine river now wears scum for overcoat
A boy of fourteen learns he’ll never walk again
High in Afghan mountains walks a fearless, agile goat
Scaredy cat, ferocious dog become the best of friends
The carousel of life, forever moving hands of clock
Each event recorded upon time’s ceaseless page
Shadow of a bird in flight or winter wander walk
Life and death illuminate our most unstable stage
War and Peace, Peace and War, eternal locked in battle
Ways of contentment falling prey to acts of guile
The path amaranthine yet we trail as doomed cattle
To oft’ forgetting the power of a smile
The Weeping Willow wept…the Wisteria so crept
Tears from the forlorn tree fed the clinging vine
The vine intertwined with tree and up its branches leapt
One comforts the other in unison they rhyme
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