Dressed in Holiday Glitz, Bearing Unspoken Loss
Inversion Poem
By DaphsamPublished about a year ago • 1 min read
One could wish for Christmas,
To celebrate with family.
If only you had left me with mine.
Alas, I was cut down to fit your needs,
Adorning me with tinsel and lights.
Chaotic ornaments weighing down my branches.
It’s to make your holiday perfect.
Did you ever think of my everlasting fate?
Christmas lasts but one day.
My kind is being destroyed for what?
A fleeting moment of gifts and cheer.
Good luck with your future holiday.
Gone, my tree family will be. I promise you.
🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄🎄
Hopefully, this reads reads forward and backwards as that was my goal.
Comments (5)
Aww! This flips the festive script in such a clever, sobering way! The melancholy voice of the tree makes you pause, and the symmetry of reading it forward and backward adds a poetic brilliance. A thoughtful, eco-conscious twist to holiday cheer. Bravo!
Now I feel so sad for the treeeee 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 It broke my heart reading it in both directions
Oh that’s very clever. Great stuff.
Ugh I hate how they cut down the trees, especially the great big humongous ones to go to DC in New York!!!!! Great job on this I am in sync with your thinking and have a fake tree. Incidentally, I thought oh I’ll get cremated and they could make me into a tree and then I thought oh no because someone would cut the tree down.
You succeeded from how I read. One reason why we have always had an artificial tree. I could feel for that Christmas tree.