There is a grove of ancient cypress hidden from the tar,
whose ancient trunks breath with the winds that travel from afar.
There, strength is held in silence and their life-glow fills the meadow,
but here and there you feel a hole where,something once was.
Half-hiding 'hind the columns of the years they've strong endured,
is a sadness that their number shrinks; this, through the winds they've heard.
I sit and marvel at the glow, in extinction they're still giving,
and the ghosts of chain-cut trees fill the spaces 'tween the living.
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