Tree Transformation

I was cut down and dragged away

My place in the woods no longer

My logs were carried downstream

I found myself on a conveyor belt

Saws sliced me into planks

My dust was just everywhere

My bark was stripped from me

They left a part of me behind

My stump and roots

A memorial of who I once was

Fragmented now

My parts were separated forever

Parts of me were taken away

I was nailed into others

They into me

And this continued

I was becoming something new

What is this place

They say it is going to be a home

Someone will live inside of us

I remember how awesome I felt

When the birds built their nests in me

When the squirrels ran up and down me

I even had raccoons living inside my trunk

There was a wound that healed in me

It was soon occupied by these creatures

It was so wonderful to live in the woods

Now that is gone forever

But yet so much is happening

Now I am all over the place

I have no idea where else I am

All I know is that now things are different

Time goes on, all the noise has stopped

I hear voices, they sound like children

And oh, that must be the parents too

There is laughter and lots of life

I am behind the wall

I am part of the structure that is the wall

But I can imagine

Things have changed for me

I have become what I never knew I would

And this is the way of the earth

And all that dwell within her

Life is ever shifting and changing

Much of it we have no control over

Every breath is a gift

The soul of you is YOU

The way you change

Sometimes it is out of your control

Find your new home

That place where you accept things

The way they are now

That place of serenity

That comes from accepting

What you cannot alter

And yet still there is hope

Transformation is painful

But when it comes

Something new is made out of you

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