Skeletal Monument

now you know why i stand so tall covering the earth in a swath of green hope swaying in triumph and showering praises whenever time is good now you know why i stand so tall for in my hands are the earth, the human race and the whole animal kingdom when i go, they too have to follow suit, we breathe each others' air and share each others' food my lips sigh in relief every time the sun has set and the gently wind blows for that means the world is in light spirits, and in good hands for if I am left uncared for, abused and rapped, my leaves would each take leave one by one they would politely bid a quiet goodbye and heartachingly swirl away in their last swan song when the last leaf takes its leave i will be but a sore and broken woman emaciated hands, and fingers pointing to a lost heaven when the human kind ungratefully runs me down my leaves will cry and dropp till all that remains are row after row of a skeletal monument to commemorate the earth demise and a lost salvation