cut me down


I see you

and what you do

you cut down our homes

and I am left with the ashes

you leave behind


Those corpses of my own creation

rotting beneath my feet

as I watch them burn

toward the moonless sky


I will grow them back

I will grow back

as always

and you will cut them down

you will cut me down

as always


Does anything ever change?

I am losing my own territory

You are gaining self-caused

pollution

and scum


You need me, why would you

kill me?

I kill you reasonably

I would understand if you killed me

reasonably

but that's never the case, is it?


I am more than just the forest

I am the one who made it

I am the one who lives inside it

and I am the one who heals it

and if you will

I am a deity


Can you represent an entire race with

only one person

some people certainly think so

why are the loudest always the worst

of society

not just in words

but actions too


cut me down

if that's what you really want

but don't ever return to me



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