A tree died

A tree died near my office

this afternnon

tall and old, lazy as a tray

It did nothing much

just made

the sky look good sometimes

I think 

it talked to the day

Maybe it was friends 

with the building beside

maybe they laughed together

in the night

I don't know really

never bothered to ask

of what its job was

or why it came

and stood where it stayed

I should have, though.

or at least taken

a photograph with it

so that I won't forget

all the strange angles it made

when it did nothing much all day