Mother of Shadows.....

She was so tall,
Full of life and fruits she was.
My grandparents planted her when she was tiny, 

She was our dear pal.
They watered her every day,
To watch her grow made their day.
During every rain we would shelter her,
Animals too we would drive away.
She grew youthful one day,
So did I, so we parted ways.
Her branches tender and juicy,
Her roots deep and strong.
They concluded she didn’t need them,
Alas they were wrong.
One vacation when I went there,
My eyes wandered her home,
Yet there was no one,
Without our pal there was no home.
She heard all our laments,
When the cruel axe hummed along?
They cut her away, on a day;
We cursed ourself for being away,
Teary eyed I sat in the ground,
The one who gave us shade every day!
In the sun, I mourned my friend;
Yet she was never away,
May be she knew our heart,
So she left her tiny message.
There was a tiny sapling,
Reminding us of our days,
We vowed to protect her daughter.