Three Word Wednesday-Tree Killer

Prompts: Pathetic, adjective: pitiful, pitiable, piteous, moving, touching, poignant, plaintive, distressing, upsetting, heartbreaking, heart-rending, harrowing, wretched, forlorn, feeble, woeful, sorry, poor, pitiful, lamentable, deplorable, contemptible, inadequate, paltry, insufficient, unsatisfactory.

Righteous (LIVING), adjective: good, virtuous, upright, upstanding, decent; ethical, principled, moral, high-minded, law-abiding, honest, honorable, blameless, irreproachable, noble; saintly, angelic, pure; (RIGHTEOUS ANGER) justifiable, justified, legitimate, defensible, supportable, rightful; admissible, allowable, understandable, excusable, acceptable, reasonable.

Sedate, verb: tranquilize, put under sedation, drug; adjective: slow, steady, dignified, unhurried, relaxed, measured, leisurely, slow-moving, easy, easygoing, gentle, calm, placid, tranquil, quiet, uneventful; boring, 

dull.

                                                                  Tree Killer        

I am a tree killer

Do I feel righteous?

Or pathetic?

That I didn’t cut down the tree

The neighbour did

I cry and defend myself

Even though

I hated this tree

For following natures edict

And growing on its own

Too close to the fence

Sedate it was not

It spread and grew

So that the fence

Began to give way

I hate myself more for

Letting it grow

Too long

Strong and tall

Letting it imagine

It could live

When I should have

Pulled as a sapling

Had I noticed it

At all

Now I am complicit

In its demise

And I must do penance

By planting trees

That shall grow and grow.

©Sheilagh Lee September 23, 2015