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Poetry  1 min

A Tree

Jessa Alfajardo
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Jessa Alfajardo
Jessa is a Filipina student at Hong Kong Baptist University where she is currently pursuing a master's degree. Apart from music, coffee, and nature, she loves reading, laughing, eating ice cream, and spending time with family and friends. She occasionally writes poems and thinks she does it best when she's inspired.
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Amazing how a tree can grow so tall and big and strong
And live for hundred years long
From a tiny seed to a big wide trunk
Where there are floods never is sunk

From tiny twigs to dividing branches
Where leaves would sit and birds sing their song
A tree would stay and play its dances
Albeit the time keeps moving on

If in my second life I could choose to be
Something, I’d choose a tree
For under its shelter I kept memories
And thoughts of you and me
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