Redwood Tree

Ponderous tall redwood tree

How does water get up

Your 300 foot height?

Your bark so red and smooth

I would like to sleep at your very top

And see 360 degrees panoramically

Nestled in your soft redwood needles

High

I would dream of when you sprouted

From a cone seed years

Before

Christ walked the earth

A tiny seed

Grew so majestically

I would wish to hear you

Speak and tell me

What you saw when men

Came in droves

And wagons

With sharp toothed steel saws

To cut your family members down

I would feel your tears

And your sorrowful heart

As you stood defenseless

Your loved ones headless

Only stumps remaining

Withstanding time

As silent testimony of man's

Pillage

All for your beautiful redwood

Flesh

And now pollution

And drought threaten you

I hope and pray you survive

Extinction threats

And live for all posterity

Of mankind to see

Your amazing splendor

Stand so tall

Defying gravity

Earthquake and winds

No other tree upon this earth

Stands so tall and wide

At girth

How dare a man cut you down

And not regret conviction's frown