I REMEMBER

I remember

A time long ago

The wind though my leaves

The earth on my roots

No longer

The air I now breathe chokes me

The earth I did love is slowly poisoning me

No longer

Do animals live by me

With their happy families

I remember

A time long ago

When we were many

And you were few

We shelter you

And I had friends to spare

No longer

Now my friends lay fallen around me no more then a memory

Now you protect us

No longer

Our time has gone

Just a whisper on the wind

So now I weep for all the lives lost

And a world murdered before my eyes

Oh I remember even if you have long forgotten

A time long ago

No longer