100 Themes - Tree

"The Dead Tree"

Some trees are big and green and welcoming, and some are like ghosts - half-asleep whispering things clawing the sky and waiting to rise again,
or lonely grey bones of saplings by the roadside amid a cluster of healthier sisters. I began to draw a living tree, but as her face and limbs changed
under unexpected quirks of the pen I knew what she was. One of those small gaunt things, bare before their time, but perhaps with just enough sap
still running to keep the nymph within her alive.