The Leafless Tree

After hiking in North Carolina with my family, I snapped the picture below and collected these thoughts.

Enjoy!

-Toby

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Went to the top of Waterrock Knob.

I noticed the trees.

The leaves were all gone.

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Was that because of the cold?

No, in the South Pole pines grow. 

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Was it the rocky trail?

Surely anything grown there is likely to fail. 

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Couldn’t be that.

This pathway housed life.

Like wild flowers,

A beetle,

And trickling water turned to ice. 

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But these trees had no leaves,

I think I know why.

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Because this path leads so high in the sky. 

I figured it out! 

But just when I thought I was smart as a whip,

I remembered seeing Redwoods.

No, the altitude wasn’t it. 

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Maybe bears came and ate up all the leaves?

No way! 

Feasting near people is no place grizzlies want to be. 

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I’m not sure, I should stop guessing,

Maybe, just maybe, no leaves is one of Mother Nature’s lessons. 

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Instead of noticing what’s wrong,

Enjoy all that’s right. 

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Never curse the winds,

That helps fly the kite. 

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Instead.

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Love the blue in the sky,

The trail’s mud on your shoes. 

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And never.

Please, never. 

Let the leafless tree obscure the wonderful view.