If I Were A Tree

by Steve Wardrip

I would walk a mile to give someone wooden shoes,
I would give them a three legged milk stool,
In the Redwoods forest they can drive through me,
Ark supply provided a shipload of lumber.

The gymnasium floor amazed me with it’s support,
The judge’s gavel, solid walnut, stained very dark,
The trap door on the gallows, the lifeguard stand,
The broom the janitor sweeps the floor with, a guitar.

Ancient natives lived here made wooden objects, buried them,
Underground the designs, the perfect examples, lie proof,
The entire knowledge of mankind is under the right front foot,
The Sphinx, the chamber room of knowledge, the hall of records.

Warehouse data forever, analyze, utilize, share, compare, coop,
This glass is full, and so are there and there and there, all full,
We fill three and drink one, for everyone we drink we fill three more.
At sometime, we’ll do four, I like more than needed as a backup in store.

I can't wait to do this forever, squandering my time down under the bridge,
Listening to the seagull squawk, listening to the cricket chirping, the birds,
Look out your window, it can never be like that again, come in, see this room?
The Queen vacated due to lack of support, wanting us to do something noble.

Any fiat is consequential, any deal, ambulatory, or chasm, deeply swam,
Being true to a King that is loyal but to a few, is nerve wracking, fractional,
On the apex edge, stable, ok, get rest, the town will get a new kid, new life,
The statues downtown will stand as testament to local talent superseded!

There is a shelf from the same stand of wood in the Empire State Building,
There is a private charter plane that flies between Paris and New York,
It shares a hold of wood of it’s dash that is an ash from the tree form,
We should expect warmer effects clearer sensations, Time, light, the same,