Deviant Oak ~ For One Shot Wednesday

Once again, this week saw me running to the twitter~verse, seeking inspiration for this week's OneshotWednesday link up at the always awesome One Stop Poetry.  True to form, the wonderful friends I have made gave me tons of ideas to work with, but the first to answer my SOS was Mark Stratton, with what I thought was a really neat idea. Mark is another wonderful writer I discovered online, and has recently released  a new book of his work.  He's well worth visiting, along with all the other poets and writers who have landed at Onestop. This week, I present to you...

Deviant Oak

And though the plan within this pod

May come from source divine

I don't think I want to grow up

To be a tree this time.

Nestled in this earthen home

Awaiting nourishment

I think I'd rather be a bird

And tell the gods "get bent!"

I must decide, I must choose

Before these roots take hold

If I want to die before my time

So they can mark my lumber sold.

If I stay and grow my rings

An eternity it will seem

Then the saws and lumberjacks

Will start getting mean.

They'll take my arms and rip them off

And head straight for my heart

They'll count my rings and laugh out loud

While sawing me apart!

If I could stay and stand my watch

Like I was meant to do

Then I would honor the divine plan

And not have to choose

But to die so tragic and in vain

Just to lay upon your floor!?

I am the ruler of the forest

A king for ever more!

So watch me grow and give you shade

And breathe the air I make

A deviant who will not bow

And let my kind be raped