Heart Unseen (Poetry)

The trees grew quietly round you
while you slept
they made no noise but sighing
as they crept
to shield the house against
the wind and rain
a barrier to ward off
worldly pain

No sleeping beauty — your bright
dreams were spun
in lands where darkness melted
cured by sun
though you grew old the buds
burst evergreen
your life a leafy thicket
heart unseen

Those branches were your cradle
as you died
rocked you safe — cruel weather’s
harm denied
ringed by time you drifted
swayed to take
the jungled dreams from which
you’d never wake