SHE LIVED IN THE WOODS


  Hidden from sunlight, beneath the tall 
  Aging trees,
  Deep in the woods, alone lived she.

  A different kind of world, quiet, except for 
  The creatures that be,
  A woman so aged, seems that she'd been 
  Here for eternity.
  So far below that which grows, the falling rain 
  Can barely touch,
  In a rickety old cabin, she had not much.

  Only sounds of the woods, kept her company,

  In a dark, lost existence, she lived to be so old,

  Not of loneliness.

  Many things did she, to occupy her moments, of 
  A ife meant to be,
  Never a face shown to her, only memories of 
  Childhood dreams.
  She lived in the woods, somewhere you see,

  An old, old woman, gone and not missed but
  Who was she?

                          Keith Garrett