“If You Were a Tree” by Jaymie Gerard
If you were a tree
If you were a tree
What kind of tree
Would you be?
An Adler, an Ash, an Apple, a Beech?
A Birch, Boxelder, maybe a Buckwheat?
A Cedar, a Cherry?
A Chinaberry?
Crabapple, an Elm, or a Fir?
A Hickory, Hemlock, or Juniper?
Magnolia, Maple?
An Oak? A Palm?
A Peach? A Pear?
A Pine? A Plum?
A Poplar? A Redbud?
A Giant Redwood?
Sassafras? Sumac?
Sycamore? Spruce?
Walnut? Willow?
Which would you choose?
If you were a tree
If you were a tree
What kind of tree
Would you be?
