Precious Family Ties

TREES

I don't like the Weeping Willow,
 

I don't like the Yellow Pine,
 

Nor do I like the sappy Maple,
 

'Cause their life's too much like mine!
 

What I like are lovely Red Buds,
 

Or a very graceful Elm,
 

Anything to not remind me...

Of the very thing I am!

 ©Edna L. Ingram