In Between The Tough Times I Wonder...

Take me into the tool shed to grab an axe

We’ll walk our days through the tender woods

The crackle of leaves and cracking branches falling beneath our feet

Cutting only the proper tree

The one who waits

You’ve seen here stand lonely by the tapering stream

“Timber!”, we yelled

With no one around

What’s the point when her limbs hit the ground.

Just to sit by her grave when we burn her;

Ashes into the ground.