The child was whole, complete and warm

Sitting on father’s knee,

A giant man with gentle hands

Shaded like a tree

Eyes did sparkle and scars they danced

And he spoke with humility

His tree gentle and strong would tell his tale

Of a life many years ago

Evil assailed, and good prevailed

A land his soul was home

And he wept and he prayed for that hopeful day

He’d return to the land of his home

Days lap days, and years over years

And the child grew big and strong

His own scars to bear, from walking amongst

The fear, lost in the throng

And of a normal one day, he received a call,

His father, it wouldn’t be long

With all haste he made, through blue and gray

To reach his tree’s failing side

He prayed more than once, then o’er again

To the land his tree hoped abide

He reached the bed, the pallid white hands

He held, his father did sigh

The branches he cradled, and leaves they swayed

As the eyes still sparkled like old

And the child did smile and he kissed his head

As he rubbed the hands nearly cold

And the end was in sight, with a tear did he cry

The story, once more, this he told

The greatest of greens, sweet rolling hills

And wine which flows from the rock

The blue and the gray glisten the bay

Where rests, the boat in the dock

Grasses they lean, and mosses like felt

In peace and freedom we walk

The laughter tickles and tears they flow

On faces spackled with glee

And we dance on the hills, beneath its blue

While animals canter and sing

A long table set, with the finest of fruits

At the head, there sits our King

We dance and we sing, we laugh and we eat

At the feast which never shall end

On the green rolling hills and the wine from the rock

As the bay flirts with the land

And love will be life, cause the King once died

In the land where souls will be home

The child looked at his tree, with a natural smile

Soft and simple its form

And the power, it drained, and the leaves rustled still

And the eyes, they sparkled no more

But the child wept with joy, his tree now a boy,

In the land forever his home