Fraxinus Excelsior

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Private Journaling,

1980.

There is a tree

A beautiful tree

A white ash

With a thick trunk and too many spindly branches to count

Each of them forever determined to kiss the sun

Arching themselves upwards in their celestial climb

It's a noble endeavour

And he and I, we admire that tree beyond all measure for its humble mission

I can't tell you how to find it, though

Other than to say if you've ever been in the remote English countryside

There's the smallest chance you've passed it

...

We couldn't take anything with us when we fled, you understand?

We simply could not

Nothing other than each other

But we left so much in England

We left our hearts

We left Our Him

The bones of him,

The bones we love

Buried hastily beneath the shadows of that ancient Ash

And not desiring to hurt the tree

Not wishing to damage its proud bark

We traced our three names into the fresh dirt patch

Knowing that even though they would fade

The earth would forever remember us

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