It is not easy being a Christmas tree,

In our life, we face much adversity.

Our forest home cremated by fierce wildfires,

And...

Early morn reading Druid tales in living room,

Disturbed by a John Deere back-hoe’s loud boom.

In the window behind me in the...

First the temperature gun at your forehead,

To prove that you are not already dead.

Then hundreds of questions to be answered...