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Watch and See

March 10, 2014
By MysticMonarch GOLD, Hamilton, Ohio
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Favorite Quote:
"If you love something, set it free. If it stays in place because it has long wooden roots buried deep in the earth, it was probably a tree."- Night Vale podcast, via twitter.

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See the trees
their bending and twisting,
moved by the wind.

Hundreds of years old,
hundreds of branches,
hundreds of feet tall.

They've lost all of their leaves,
in a hundred beautiful,
versions of fall.

And in one strike of lightning,
with one gust of wind,
they fall down.

© Sara P., Lake Mary, FL

The author's comments:
Everybody and everything falls down eventually. The difference is that we, as humans, have the ability to get back up~.
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