Heart of a Tree (A Poem)

Heart of a Tree

I cut out my heart and planted it in the garden 

The weather was nice and I need to kill time

I watered it with the blood of my lover and I

The earth happily soaked it up with a smile

Over time a tree started to sprout and flower 

Its bark was black and its leaves where red

I kept watering it everyday with my blood

I hoped to fill the void inside my empty chest

The tree grew large and it blotted out the sun

Giant red leaves that stained the sky red

And though it grew I began to slowly die

Over time I was weak and the tree was not

So one night I took out my axe and stood

It was so large, so foreboding and blood red

i took a swing at the black bark and it broke 

It began to bleed and cry at me in pitying pain

Every strike I gained some of my strength 

The blood drained into the greedy earth 

Blood was up to my ankles, it began to stick

Each raising of axe gave me more strength

The tree it fell with a monstrous painful groan

Inside the bark was my heart intwined in roots

and beneath the roots I heard the crying of child

So I took my heart and placed it inside my chest

I took the axe and attacked the bloody stump

each swing bringing me closer to the screams

Of a child inside unable to see the world above

I reached inside and pulled the child, it cried

I held it close to me and started to feel tears

Although I am lost this child I have found is not

hold it close to my only beating and working heart

You cannot bury what is inside for it shall grow