Kit Kelen #244 - fairytale

244

fairytale

one tree wandered off

it might have been a fit of pique

perhaps something some other tree said?

no one would notice

the forest was just as thick

strange though the stump

left in the morning

no tree had ever seen that before

nobody heard a thing

but then I should point out

trees are quite deaf

just shout at one and you'll know

and the wood was as dense as before

maybe moreso

a little gap gives you a look-in

that's how it started

in the end they must have been

up hill and down dale

one couldn't help seeing it

as a rout, as flight

but what were those trees fleeing from?

I couldn't say

and actually nobody saw them go

so it's all a bit circumstantial

but the sun's a bit too bright here now

when it rains the soil's all washing away

God knows where they were heading, those trees

no one's ever seen them again

it's a cosy book

this story's in

under the polished beams

feet up by an open fire