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I saw a beautiful lake once, perfection
Not like things man makes
F or it has everything it needs
Including a purpose to serve the birds the plants the trees
It said "see me" I won't be this way for long
For when the ground has thawed man will come along
He will change my purpose my reason for being
And it's him I now will serve
Funny after all these years of being a preserve
I'm just a lake surrounded by lots of trees
And soon they'll take my family from me
No more eagles no more swans and no more little deer
I'll have a little walking path with barking dogs I fear
No one will really need me I'll have no one to feed
What about that fertilizer after all that grass seed
Will I be poisoned turn all green
Will they turn there heads in disgust?
You must go and tell them I have no one else to trust
They don't see me like you see me
They don't know how much I mean
Some how I've just become a developers dream
I'll be just a lake lonely
No more beautiful trees to see
No more colors in the fall reflecting off of me
No more green in the spring, oh a little here and there
But it's starting to feel like no one really cares
I mean I'm just a lake what's really at stake?
Oh yeah I'm a dying breed
It doesn't seem to matter for humans have such greed
It's not like I can get up and walk and go tell them how I feel
I can only sit and wait for them to seal the deal
Tell all the children how you saw me in my splendor
Tell them of my woods before they plowed them under
Tell them how glorious I was and the proud eagles who came here
Don't tell them of me now and how I lived in fear....
Knowing that it's coming the day of demise
It's not the people I hate it's their greed I despise
But you loved me, I know you always will
So for now enjoy me... .. . enjoy me until
1/10/05
by, Rhianna Saxson