Life As a Tree

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I heard something in the woods rustling near me. I was scared, frightened, for I have not heard a sound like that in ten years.  Then I saw him, a man, he came to me with a nasty chainsaw that brought back horrible memories. It took me back to a time when me, my mother, my father, brother, and sister were together. Two men showed up and cut my families soul apart. They took them away and left me behind alone and afraid, During my flashback, I started to feel the pain of the chainsaw cutting into my soul, and I eventually fell over almost as if it was replaying my past.

I woke up with a startle and looked at all I could around me since I had no neck to look at the beauties of the world. The room was moving, and I was frightened. I had never been in such a place. I was in there for a long time, but I soon realized that I was not alone. There were others like me there too. But they were too petrified to speak to me. Soon the moving room stopped and I was relieved. Immediately, there was a light from the open spot in the back and I was lifted once again and taken in another room.

Inside, I saw tons of men doing stuff with the trees similar to me, the trees that had been taken from their homes to come here to be given another life, another journey. I then felt a cold metal touching my bark and moving me away into a darkened square. I had no idea of what was happening, because it was so dark. I started to feel more knives cutting into me, and hurting me once again. Until suddenly I was soon able to see light again. I tried to look at myself to see what they had done to me but I didn't look like me anymore! I was smooth and shiny looking, almost as if I was naked. A strong looking man came over to me and lifted me up and took me away to be worked on. He shaped me and put sharp nails in me with what is called a "hammer" . When he was finished, he sat on me and moved back, and forth, and believe it or not, I moved with him! Within a few seconds the fun was over. He got up, left and came back with a piece of paper. The worst part was that he peeled some of it off and stuck it on me. How rude! I turned my eyes to get a glimpse of it and saw it had lines and squiggly things on it. Just as I was trying to figure out what was going on, I yet again, was lifted up into a moving room.

As soon as I saw the light coming through the back I knew it was moving time again and I was ready. A different man picked me up and took me inside another building which I had overheard was called a 'store'. In this 'store', the man placed me down next to other trees that had been in the same process that I had been in, and left me there. Though I was frightened, I knew that I wasn't alone. I had a tree named Cindy beside of me. She told me that her mom had left with a man and a woman and never came back. I started to tell her my story and she told me that it was similar to hers. I didn't get to finish my story because people started rushing into the store. One of the people that entered came towards Cindy and I. It was a woman. She looked at me, looked at the sheet of paper that was attached to me, and then sat on me.