Why pine and not some other tree?
Why pine for you when you pine not for me?
If my pine dies, what remains?
The Longleaf will grow too tall to climb
and has no leaves, anyway.
The tallest pine will fall one day.
Someday the last green needle
browns and throws itself to the wind,
bark flakes, soft wood softens and falls away.
Buried in true leaves, the pine knot remains,
too hard to chew, too bitter to eat,
waiting for a fire that leaves no ash,
consuming all till nothing is left.
So I pine for you,
till I pine not .
And leave nothing of my pine
but the knot.
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