I think I’d like to be a tree

 Is it cliché, passé, to want to be a tree?

I think that’s what I’d want to be

If I weren’t already me.

A big old Spruce tree, live for centuries 

Home to birds and squirrels and bees

Watch the world go by, touch the sky

feel the earth move under my feet

rooted deep. Catch the morning light

and the last rays of sun at night

Wear a golden crown of cones on my

boney branches, breathing in the foggy air

exhaling heavy scented resin

It sounds like heaven 

A tree is what I’d want to be

If I weren’t already me.


write a poem in which the speaker expresses the desire to be someone or something else, and explains why.


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