Shape of a Tree

A tree stands with a noble blithe beauty
about a block or two beyond my door.
It does both shade a perspective tawdry
and light the heart to what I deep adore.

Wide as two lovers’ four hand eye embrace,
a rotund trunk rises simple and strong.
But what lays soft aloft its sturdy base
is the where my short life does ever long.

A prim, thick, voluptuous, verdant dome,
with asymmetric geometric curl
hovers miraculous, and there is sown
sight’s insight my mind’s eye loves to unfurl.

Here then still, lives a friend, who everyday
dually gives me breath and takes it away.