The Haunting Tree

The Haunting Tree 

"I'm but a spirit now that haunts man

searching like Diogenes in the mid-day sun." - avr

Dr Abe V Rotor 

Tree skeleton, UST Manila (circa 1995) 

I am dead.

Won't you stop as you did when I was alive?

Where are the birds that perched on my arms, 

The gentle wind that caressed me and sang, 

Bees and butterflies that kissed my flowers, 

Dewdrops that bejeweled my crown, 

Children, many of them, after school would come 

To play and talk with, though they didn't understand. 

I'm but a spirit now that haunts man,

Searching like Diogenes in the mid-day sun. ~