A forest comes down a mountain

Along the way it grows a pair of eyes

A mouth, hands, feet

Like a baby, it starts crawling

And then it starts walking

Down a man-made path to the city

Where it gets a job, a wife, a family

Until one day, it remembers how

A river once flowed through its veins

All the way to the sky

And rained for so long

That it could no longer feel

The tears running down its face

21 July 2019