Lost Brother

I really like this poem! It makes me think of this book I read over and over again as a child. It was about this kid who loved this huge willow tree, but time past and the boy grew into a man where he didn't have time for the tree. The tree became sad and lonely and began to die. In the very end the man becomes old and weak and looks for the companionship of the tree, and the tree provides shade and for the old man to rest. Its one of those books that looks at the passing of time and I can completely relate that theme to this poem. It made me realize how humans and trees go through so many obstacles and troubles and survive through it, but then one day the tree gets cut down just like humans simply die of old age. This poem also mentions how the nature has the same mother as the human race and that is so true because all living beings have to die at one point or another. The last sentence is kind of comical because it talks about how a bag of wind will cut me down, yet wind shouldn't even harm a human or a tree. Thats why I related to the wind to death because it's so sudden and weak compared to all the obstacles that could of killed a human or a tree in the past. This poem does a fantastic job of showing how time ages us and that life should be valued for what it is.