This solitary tree,
Utterly alone amongst the brown grasses.
Nary a leaf can I see,
iIgnored by the traveling masses.
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No birds find cause to seek shelter,
No buds rise to show you love.
Dry and brittle in the noonday swelter,
Limbs raised to Heaven hoping for rain from above.
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What have you done to be shunned…an outcast,
Sentence too cruel for such an innocent one.
Punishment levied you’d hoped you’d outlast,
With each passing day a new days begun.
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I look on with sorrow and the shedding of tears,
As I see myself in you, one and the same.
With scarcely a friend after all of these years,
I’ve no one to place, except me with the blame.
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I too just as you have my soul laid out bare,
A wish for companionship to stay.
Broken and weak I expose to the air,
The longing for love I keep locked away.
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~~ Dominic R. DiFrancesco ~~
Dom DiFrancesco 
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