Baltimore Old Tree Limbs

Tree limbs peered out the side window on the second floor.

So many noses wants to know, "How'd it get there?"

Coming from a second floor of an abandoned row house

window. Looks dilapidated.

The dropping from a bird contained a seed of a weed

Landed in that house's empty space.

How could this be?

No one breathed life into that house I must say.

Nature naturally did its thing

I'm asking even though I know.

How could this be, a tree lasting without soil,

growing within the walls of emptiness?

Families came and gone.

Even they left behind a song, something of 

treasure.

Part of each soul soul partly parted ways with that

house a tree now calls home.

Stuck with time, the limbs can glide with

stride because it's out and about that house.

But I must tell you weeds thrive in heat,

can last on concrete.

And will kill a flower's groove so let that tree

be.

The city will bulldoze a row of houses in the

next phase of revitalizing old Baltimore.

Reviews

[jacob erin-cilberto]

this reminds me of every time i look at an old abandoned building...i immediately stop and imagine that building at the height of its life..and how full of life it would have been---
now just remnants of what once was.

j.

[ROXANE DORSEY]

Again thanks for the kind review and read.