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Questions from a Tree (maybe)


Jumping out on limbs because you lost all your branches.
Branchless because your roots have rotten.
At what point do you stop being a tree?
Does a tree need branches? Need roots?
Or have I simply become a sickened stump?
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cgoins
<p>I love this poem!!!</p>

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