Twin Trees (463 hits)
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Submitted by Emily (View user info) at 2005-02-07 11:52:50 EST
My eyes welled up with listless tears as I gazed once more upon the twin trees. They both were on the street that I had lived on, like sentinels to guard proud suburbia. One on each side of the road, parted by a ribbon of concrete, they stood my entire childhood and stood still. Throughout the years these trees always caused me to weep, as they were the beacons of my neighborhood, and as I returned to view them my eyes became pregnant with familiar tears.
I recall that when I was twelve I climbed up the very same tree after a snagged kite, and plummeted through the twigs and branches to the ground and a broken arm. It hurt so much that tears of agony streamed down my face as I ran into the house, my arm at that funny angle.
On my sixteenth birthday, and drunk with hormones a boy carved both our names poetically into the bark of those two trees, encompassed in hearts. When we moved on due to the irreconcilable emotional differences that teenagres acrue, and I had to see those scars daily on the trunks of the trees on my street, I would sigh and weep in remembrance.
When I suffered my first adult heartbreak, and returned home to lick my wounds those trees were waiting there for me. Symbolically they stood parallel, sky-bound with strong, straight trunks, but never to meet. They grew together, but would never touch, would always be alone, even as their counterpart grew only yards away. Even the hope that their limbs would meet and twine with each other's wasn't a possibility as the telephone company hewed away their branches that stretched towards the other as would a languid lover's embrace. This too caused bitter tears to burn from my eyes, as my hopeless despair was cast upon the trees of my youth.
And now I stood before those trees. My scars had faded, as had the scratches and scars left on the bark. But I stood, in the cold with my breath trailing fog, and I wept. I fell to my knees, in the cold, in the night on the pavement of my street where I lived. But now I only wept for myself, for my ignorance. For while I thought those trees were eternally parted, I was incorrect. And only now as I had grown and experienced love and loss I could know the truth of these two trees.
The trunks and branches may never meet, but beneath the stone of pavement the roots of those trees commingle freely. However distant they may appear, those trees are forever entwined. And with this knowledge I weep not with sadness or loss; my tears are cried in gratitude.
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Submitted by Tigre (user info) at 2005-02-21 15:21:10 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
You cry because the telephone company trims it's branches? Where do you live, I'll go cut them the hell down! :D
Submitted by InkyFingers (user info) at 2005-02-21 15:05:34 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
Im going to negative two this into oblivion. Your revenge post ruined my only perfect plus two, and you did it because I was sarcastic on you other posts. I wasn't even mean or belittling... I was sarcastic. But no, you have incurred the full wrath here fucker. No more pulled punches for you noob.
Did you know that crying at trees makes you an idiot. It also means your fucking shallow and socially inept. Do you know how many other retards, who imagine themselves as artists, wave the " beauty of a tree" flag? So many that they don't have names: they are known simply as "Waitress".
Don't revenge post me again bitch.
Submitted by InkyFingers (user info) at 2005-02-21 14:17:39 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
Oh yeah, god job on another worthless post. Extra -2 for being an ass hole.
Submitted by InkyFingers (user info) at 2005-02-21 14:16:53 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
Hey dumbass, did you know that the writer's ratings dont count toward their score. You'd probably know that if you werent a retard, but thanks for the -2, now I have a reason to talk shit about you.
Submitted by Vomit (user info) at 2005-02-07 12:25:00 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
Does ew need me to call the waaaambulance?
Submitted by Sassmasterr (user info) at 2005-02-07 12:24:58 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
if you look at the picture just right, it makes this post look good.
or so i've been told. i couldn't find that angle, so to me...it still sucked
Submitted by knucklesnelson (user info) at 2005-02-07 12:22:53 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
tree hugger
Submitted by apollo88 (user info) at 2005-02-07 12:16:27 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
Submitted by MeanderingPoet (user info) at 2005-02-07 12:10:48 (#)
Ranking: -2
Yawn. """
Don't do retaliatory -2's it is not the done thing, you will just have people ripping into you.
Not worth the hassle.
Friendly advice old horse.
Submitted by Vomit (user info) at 2005-02-07 12:15:51 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
O.k...so you're going to retaliate against everyone that says something mean or gives you a -2? Good luck fitting in here.
Submitted by TheSpook (user info) at 2005-02-07 12:15:22 EST (#)
Ranking: -1
I don't get it. At all.
Submitted by apollo88 (user info) at 2005-02-07 12:15:06 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
Oh puhlease.
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ALARM.
How precisely is a 'tear' 'listless' ?
There are enough angst ridden perpetual-teen 'writers' on uber.
Submitted by Vomit (user info) at 2005-02-07 12:07:52 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
So you're a fucking noob and have started your retaliatory -2's already? Go get me a beer. Bitch.
Submitted by Vomit (user info) at 2005-02-07 11:59:59 EST (#)
Ranking: -2
You get a -2 not because this sucked...but because this is your 3rd post today.
Submitted by WhatTheHell (user info) at 2005-02-07 11:53:42 EST (#)
Ranking: 1
Uhm.... chicken nuggets?