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Why The Willow Weeps

I know why the willow weeps

Over the darkened lake.

It weeps over death and family,

While the whole world’s at stake.

It weeps of the unpredictable future.

It weeps of the violent past.

It knows anything and everything,

Which is why the sorrow lasts.

                                                Poem by Hannah Watson

Thanks to Hannah for sharing her heart and soul in this poem and giving permission to publish it here on Laine's Blog. Photo by Carolyn Watson.