Branch from a tree, green coursing with life
Stretching bright toward sunlight and rain--
Cut, sharp, sudden, shut from root,
Still holding green, bleeding life.
Dying, drying, fading fast
Sense no more sun, nothing lasts;
No more leaves whisper, no more sap moves
Cold and Dark and Damp set in.
A warmth, a light, and it consumes
Bright shines a new light giving life
No sun shines, but shines a warm light
Once more Sap boils in short last life
All ash, the remains as day resumes.
Ash to ash, and dust to dust in life
Upon earth. Earth refined, and pours the rain
Seep in ash, and soak in, through root
Holding, coursing, bringing life.
