"a tree"

Denial.

If a tree falls in the forest

but nobody is around to hear it,

did it truly fall?

and what if I am the tree-

nobody heard my fall from the highest

so I rest here with them

unsuspecting and dismissing;

missed and denied,

invalidated and not permitted to feel

the very suffering which I lament;

I wish the wind would not sweep me away

along with the evidence

of what I have known for so long,

of what is carved into the bark

and what lurks among the willow.