The Paper and The Tree

Written for the following prompts:
Verse First - Edit to elevate
One Single Impression - Farewell
Linking to:
Poetry Pantry #163

Verse First - Edit to elevate

Write a poem about something exceedingly ordinary, something completely mundane. Edit it to elevate it. Turn it into art. Choose your words carefully, using only those conveying your specific intent. Remove everything that doesn't serve you well. 

So here's my poem for the prompt. Please leave your thoughts on my poem in the comments. Suggestions to make it better are welcome. Thanks.

The Paper

They say someday you'll be extinct

When paperless offices blossom

But you quietly smile and wink

Knowing these thoughts are like flotsam

It's environmentally friendly 

Call the techno advocates

Paper and tree look on bemusedly

While air and landscape deteriorate

It's not the paper that's at fault

It's man's lack of caring

Tree and paper exist not apart

But enjoy each other's sharing

If man made paper from dying tree

Instead of destroying younglings

Our precious world would be fresh and free

And a friendly place for earthlings.

The circle of life applies to all

Not selectively; that's man's misunderstanding

Nature doesn't make us fall

It's our careless thought and handling

~x~

OSI - Farewell

and The Tree

The dying tree bade farewell

To the little ones around it

Use me, to man it cried out aloud

For I'm the one unfit

Don't leave me here to rot in pain

Set my spirit free to your benefit

Spare my young ones, let them grow

Dear Lord, let man that permit

~x~

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