Empty Trees and Burnt Leaves

Feeling like a tree without leaves

Walking around vulnerable

Feeling naked Letting go of something that could have been Would have been but under circumstances Was a little bit destroyed with fire Greater than a forest one spreading all around California

Due to a drought that's never been as bad before With thirst that dries your lip greater than a rim of salt You become aware as if someone knocked your head With your brick and you and you have just come out of a coma

But at the same time you know that what you did was As important as saving a life because in a way You were preventing the inevitable A cursed life, as a life it still may be- Is one that no parent wishes on their children

*Disclaimer: A friend opened up to me about having an abortion in college not revealing names or anything but this was my perspective of how I feel she felt when going through with it. *