Surriddle Me This

Thought I'd drop my latest creative writing assignment, albeit nearly a week after I wrote it.  The theme for this particular assignment was surrealism and I drew my inspiration from a combination of digging in the dirt and a painting entitled "Jet Stream" the teacher used as a free write prompt.  Without further ado, I give you:

Chop and Caw

Chop at the roots

watch the birds scatter

chop at the roots

feel blood splatter

say goodbye to those

you hardly know

make them sorry

to see you go

uproot the tree

to set yourself free

rushing waters

swirling winds

shake leaves

like a gentle breeze

sturdy limbs sinewed fiber

swats the cawing crow

seeking refuge within

the tree's ear

Be gone

nefarious crow

Take thy deeds

and roost elsewhere

not here

not in my air

not that I care

who you disturb

blue skies swallow

you crow in ashen grey

rain dead embers upon you

leave you to gasp and wheeze

trampled under root

under boot

under tree

under me