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seiberwing ([personal profile] seiberwing) wrote2006-10-12 09:54 am
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The worms crawl in
The worms crawl out
The worms play pinochle
On your snout.


I was in the arboretum back home with my mom on Monday and coming back to the car I notice something was missing, in that odd way that you know that something isn't right but have no clue what.

After searching for a bit, I noticed one of the pear trees was cut down. My pear tree. The one with a plaque saying it was planted just a few days after my birthday, the one that I used to hug every time I went to the arboretum. I stared at the stump for a few seconds, then sat down on it and cried.

I know it was diseased and probably needed taking down before it infected anything else, but still...it was my tree. It just doesn't seem fair that the tree should die before I did.

[identity profile] navigatorsghost.livejournal.com 2006-10-12 02:02 pm (UTC)(link)
*hugs tight* Oh, Seiber, I'm sorry. That's so awful. :(

[identity profile] revelininsanity.livejournal.com 2006-10-12 02:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah. They cut down my forest, for logging reasons, like, two years after we left BC. ALl those ferns and stuff, gone. It's never fair when trees die.

[identity profile] kyra-neko-rei.livejournal.com 2006-10-12 03:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Ohhh, sad!

We used to have a giant hackberry tree just behind our garage . . . 121 feet tall, they said, having measured it after they cut it down. The insurance company complained about it, saying it was a big risk in storms and there was I think something about them refusing to cover our garage for storm damage because of it. So one day my mom came up to school and brought us home over lunch---to watch them take it down. They were already partially done, and I sat in the window and cried. Not only that, but it was way in the back of our yard, and to get at it they cut down another tree I liked, with a crotch that was perfect for sitting and reading in! It was already cut off at ground level and there was a truck parked over it!

I wrote a poem about it, but I don't think I have that anymore.

[identity profile] psychokitty013.livejournal.com 2006-10-12 07:54 pm (UTC)(link)
*hug* I'm sorry Seiber.

We used to have an apple tree in our yard that was smallish, but perfect for climbing in. It died and had to get cut down though. I miss it because I can remember my sisters and I playing near it when I was younger.

...I feel emo now.

*hugs more and gives E-cookies*
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[personal profile] whitedove01s 2006-10-13 03:08 am (UTC)(link)
Can't remember losing any trees, but I remember being really pissed off one year when the electric company sprayed heavy herbicides under their wires and right through the berry patch on the hill where I used to live. We never had a good berry crop again as long as I was out there.

On another note, where did you hear that rhyme? It sounds a lot like one I was taught as a sort of nursery rhyme as a kid, only that one was like this:

The worms crawl in
the worms crawl out
In your stomach
and out your mouth

If you see
a herse go by
You will be
the next to die

They'll wrap you up
In a bloody white sheet
And bury you under
six foot deep

[identity profile] newagelink.livejournal.com 2006-10-13 04:37 am (UTC)(link)
> It just doesn't seem fair that the tree should die before I did.

Bittersweet (http://newagelink.livejournal.com/122966.html), having emotions like these. I'd try to see it as a good experience, that 1) you have the opportunity to have a tree as a pet, and that 2) you have the capacity to feel for it. There are those that can do neither; on /b/ at 4chan I ran across a thread saying, "Post the picture that made you emotionless," and people posted photographs of mutilated cats and kittens.

(Anonymous) 2006-10-20 11:35 pm (UTC)(link)
That sucks.

There's a small forest behind my house that's being destroyed, little by little. Either by construction, or the local paintball-playing idiots. I hate it when trees are cut down.
-Hika