[Freeform] Poetry "Tree"

In the yard there grew a tree,

Massive and great with

Hefty branches that stretched

Up and up and up

For a hundred years.

On those branches were

A million leaves, with veins

That soaked the sun and

grew and grew and grew

For a hundred years.

The seasons came and changed

the tree, caused the leaves to go

Green to gold to brown to gone

Over and over and over

For a hundred years.

Until one day the tree fell down,

Fell

Down and down and down

As the branches

Snapped and snapped and snapped

And the leaves turned

Brown and brown and brown

For the tree had been rotting

From the inside out

For a hundred years.