Flexural

However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are richest. -Thoreau

Bare and bent tree is a photograph by Kathy Nicklen

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so naked

the trees seem so skinny and tall today

so naked

trying to stand up to a gossiping march wind

the rain is being bullied into implosion

against its free will

i'm here

wondering what happened to my roots

limbs of feelings, thoughts and emotions

meditative

askew

akimbo

awry

swirling

sodden

downtrodden

in the midst of survival

in the midst of the fight

trying to stick to what's right

waiting for faith's revival

quickly, someone pretty blow me a kiss

direct hit, not a near miss

across this expansive, expensive abyss

usher me back to my seat of bliss

i'm so lonely

in an echoing chamber gone amiss

so naked

it wasn't supposed to be like this

Author's Note

“In short, I am convinced, both by faith and experience, that to maintain one’s self on this earth is not a hardship but a pastime, if we will live simply and wisely; as the pursuits of the simpler nations are still the sports of the more artificial.” -Thoreau