Arbor Day

We plant our trees today

So with time they will rise above our heads one day

Our trees absorb carbon monoxide from the air

Beloved trees they are that make clean oxygen so fair

It is easy to forget with all the smog and the pollution

The importance of a tree within societies internal revolutions

Is often lost within the hustle

Or straight up left behind in the bustle

The plight of our trees cut down faster than they can grow up

Deforestation is still one of societies many hiccups

For us trees make the air that we breath often without for them thought

But for so many things we do not realize even that is not all that is wrought

They grow from the mulch of other dead plants

They provide shelter for birds, squirrels, and ants

Beneath them we might find depending on the kind

A potatoes in the roots or a mushroom growing between roots twine

So many trees exist in the world

Each one of them precious from the time that they've unfurled

For each tree be they vast or not

Comes from but a seed so tiny a dot

Yet the effect of a tree is even greater than the biggest

Without them soil becomes unstable and away washes the richest

Things like tornado alley come from the trees absence where once they were many

Where the wind was once balanced by the forest now granting no mercy to any

So the importance of planting trees is much more than we could know

But the world without trees we must all remember by human hands remains our woe

For our world is so very fragile more so than we can see

For the loss is so much greater when the world has lost her trees

Nutrients in the soil wash away and we wouldn't notice but a sound

So many habitats disappear and full circle things will come around

For a world without trees would one day be absent of life

And it is easy to forget within our hands we hold the knife

Greed can be powerful to help so many to forget

It is up to us to remember that to trees we owe a debt