Here I stand

Tall and unyielding, forever unable to move from where I was placed.

For 200 years I have watched you grow

So much you have done in such a short amount of time

Like you I started out a small sapling,

Weak and unsure of my place in this world.

Surrounded by so many of my kin

I didn’t stand out amongst them

I was one of a thousand of the same.

But one by one as I grew taller my family ...