ELLEN THE TALL ONE

There they sit,

Suffering in silence.

Motionless and stiff,

Suffering in silence.

Capable and strong,

Each in their own right.

Buoyant is their friendship,

To one another’s plight.

Surely their tears must burst,

In the solitude of an empty wood.

Like a fallen tree nobody hears-

An existence denied of being mourned or understood.

Oslo April 2015

Oslo April 2015