<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=447263" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Eulogy At Midnight</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Eulogy At Midnight<br>Date: December 1,2011</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Night songs whisper through the air<br>Wind ghosts comb her twisted hair<br>With time bent back and furrowed brow<br>Love vows carved upon her bough</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A hundred years of age to show<br>A splendid sight come rain or snow<br>With roots entwined beneath the sod<br>Her arms held high, in praise to God</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Moonbeams gloss her rugged skin<br>She mourns the loss of youth and kin<br>Across the valleys, timbers fall<br>Making way for human sprawl</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Yesterday majestic, tomorrow bleak<br>Nothing more to hide or seek<br>Assailed by winds of seasons past<br>Her final days loom cold and vast</div><div style="margin:10px 0">A sodden veil spreads neath her feet<br>Time stands still, the silence fleet<br>No more in pride she staunchly stands<br>She bends to pled the grace of man<br> </div><div style="margin:10px 0">When morning sun glints the east<br>She’ll be condemned, beyond release<br>A priceless treasure raped by greed<br>The insatiable heart of man to feed</div><div style="margin:10px 0">One last stand beneath her girth<br>To pray for man, to pray for earth<br>Why can’t we see beyond our lust<br>And lift our hearts to God in trust</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Twisted, torn and thrown as waste<br>Her healthy hearth slain in haste<br>No man pays heed to hear her sighs<br>Or lends an ear as nature cries</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>******************************** *************<br>Copyright © 2011 Leria Hawkins, All Rights Reserved</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Leria+Hawkins">Leria Hawkins</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=447263" data-title="Eulogy At Midnight de Leria Hawkins" data-description="Eulogy At Midnight Date: December 1,2011 Night songs whisper through the air Wind ghosts comb her twisted hair With time bent back and furrowed brow Love vows carved upon her bough A hundred years of age to show A splendid sight come rain or sno..."></div> </div> </div>

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