Hope

The October breeze gathering the decadent leaves
Clackity-clack of branch on branch back
A shedding world falling to its knees

King winter comes to court with a lesson for hubristic trees
Now barren and brown in gnarled bark
A skeletal frame in this land of freeze

While there stands tall the evergreen
Winged tree within winter’s mark
This revolutionary, snow caped yet seen

In death’s whiteness a pristine green