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The tree with her dance does bend and sway
She wonders why water is so far away
So, she unearths her roots and goes on a search
For things that can only be found on brand new Earth
Her roots turn to legs
Her trunk to a torso
Her leaves to hair
Her bark no more so
She becomes a mutant monkey being
In her search for new meaning
She doesn’t realize what she’s leaving behind
She doesn’t realize she won’t be back this time
Not in the same form
Not in the same way
It’ll always be a new search
It’ll always be a different day
She will die with each new decision she makes
Becoming a walking corpse of memories
And yet she’s never felt so alive
But only so long as she doesn’t forget
Where her roots used to lie
Deep in the forest away from “humanity”.
E. Lexi Abbott 