© October 8, 2009
Come to me
And shed your tears
Let them flow from your eyes
And I will extract the poison
From your system
And flush it
Through my roots
Turning the soil red
With your pain
.
Come to me
And shout your anger
at my leaves
Until your throat is sore
Beat your fists against my trunk
Until your knuckles are bloody
Let the rage spill out of you
Like the frenzy of a thunderstorm
I have stood strong
Through all the winds and rains
And fire from the sky
I will withstand your fury
And bury it
So it does not bury you
.
Come to me
And give me your pain
Let all your suffering
Fill my limbs
And as my branches crack
And break
And crash to the ground
Know that as I bow down at your feet
I am honored to remove your pain
That my greatest wish
Is to serve you
Beautiful poem. May I suggest you read The Crying Tree by Naseem Rakha? It is a novel that come out this week, and it seems you wrote this poem for that story.
Being that the email address of this comment contains the name of the author of the book mentioned, I’m taking it that you are using my site to make a shameless plug for your own book and in the process talking about yourself in the third person like Jimmy from “Seinfeld” and “Swami doesn’t like that.” Sounds like a tactic right out of the book How To Win Friends And Influence People: “That’s a great tie! Here are some widgets I’d like to sell you.”
Also, “It is a novel that come out this week” is grammatically incorrect. Either it “comes” out this week or it “came” out this week. I hope you put more attention into your book than you did into your three-line comment here. I guess your editor is not on hire for you when you “come.”
No, I didn’t “write this poem for that story” nor does it “seem” like this. A preliminary online look at what your story “seems” to be about is completely unrelated to my poem. If I were to write a poem for your story, I would entitle it, “Even A Whore Can Publish A Book.”
Okay, you got in your shameless plug. You could have written, “I am coming out with a book next week called…” instead of being a manipulative pussy and I would most probably have approved your comment without my own commentary.
Readers, I’m not telling you what to do, but if you go to the bookstore next week and deface every copy you can find of her lame book and send me an email with your address…you may just receive a free gift in the mail.
Gee darn Swami…Aggressive much?
Deep and Profound!!!