once upon a time a cherry...

it was once a cherry
vibrant as a sea of rubies
sharing an old cherry tree
in a warm spring time
seeded with summer promises ...

wanted the fate that a cyclone
fierce as a troll, winding like a viper,
mow all the cherries, burning all the leaves,
leaving bare branches with a single cherry
dehydrated, lonely, sad, lackluster ...

attached to a lifeless branch,
silenced the starlings melodies,
dreams faded in smoke,
nothing is left to our cherry
even forgotten by the thunders of life ...