Come Home, You Are Missed Thou

Alone in a forest pitted and rotted
Arborian pillars rising knuckled and grey
To neck-cramping heights

So much happens at once

Bark hanging like sack-cloth from sweeps of bone, like empty flesh
Alone in a forest pitted and rotted
Branches shorn, stripped of greenery, stripped of dignity

So much happens at once

The naked ground pestled barren
Unearthed roots strewn and dying

Privacy is priceless to me