Fare- thee-well dear friend

She doesn't have much time...
i heard him say the words
but i didn't seem to digest them
She's had a good long life
he said...
i knew that too
but it didn't seem to help
now that the time for ~Goodbyes~ was here

Because she had always been there
for my vulnerable times
for my saddnesses
and happier times too
Always ~there~
so elegant in her tallness
and never gangling
she had a certain kind of
~Grace~

And i remembered her
when her limbs were full
and healthy
and how the slightest breeze
would gently toss her softness
and her grace would touch my very ~spirit~
like softly falling wedding confetti

It's time, he said again...
and i remembered the tears
that we had shared together
i would remember her
for these small kindness-ess
instead of the guilt i was fighting now
for she had been been able to take
the darkness from my soul

Deep down i knew this was ~Truth~
and so did this gentleman sent to this task
of letting her go...

So now there will be an empty place
where my heart used to be

But this is as it should be
gently whispered the little birds
for this is ~Love~

Goodbye dear friend

...my old ~Poplar tree~






























































































































Tree Legends:

http://www.angelfire.com/journal2/flowers/pcd41.html

Populus spp.
The Poplar is referred to as the talking, whispering and quivering tree. It is said to have the ability to endure and conquer. Heracles wore a crown of poplar leaves when he retrieved Cerberus from Hades. The upper surface of the leaves was thus darkened from Hades' smokey fumes. The Anglo-Saxon rune poem refer to the Poplars being associated with the rune berkano.

Poplar was considered an antidote to a serpent's bite. It was dedicated to Alcides Hercules as a god of healing powers. Zeus killed Phaëthon with a thunderbolt because he was unable to control the sun chariot he had stolen from his father Helios. The Heliads, his grieving sisters, were metamorphosed into weeping poplar trees whose tears turned to amber as they fell into a stream.

The nymph Leuce was metamorphosed into a white poplar by Persephone to save her from being raped by Hades. According to another myth, Hades planted an aspen tree in the Elysian Fields to honor his mistress, the nymph Leuce. White poplar was associated with Leuce, leprosy. A leper colony in ancient Greece was under the protection of Zeus of the White Poplar. Lepreans worshipped the white poplar. The moon goddess of the white poplar cured skin disease.

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