A Giant

A Living Freak of Nature

A Redwood.

Tall, upstanding, huge, strong, ancient

At least

 2,400 years old

People look at it in wonder.

“Wow! Amazing!” They say

And I agree

But I don’t

I think it’s unbelievable and amazing too

But I think that because I wonder

I wonder how a simple tree- so inferior,

others tell me, to mankind could go on When it sees civilization grow around it

Killing its family

Using its friends, relatives, even its own boughs

and branches, for homes or buildings.

Yet it keeps on going

1,000 years ago, it might have thought

Just one more year

One more year of torture and sadness

But its perseverance is big and mighty just like itself

I myself can barely live twelve years, let alone

2,400

It’s so hard when you see different

Species Breeds

Of cruelty Making you feel small

Smaller

Smaller

Until you don’t exist.