The Tree

Oh to be free of myself,

With nothing left to remember,

To have my heart as bare

As a tree in December;

Resting, as a tree rests

After its leaves are gone,

Waiting no more for a rain at night

Nor for the red at dawn;

But still, oh so still

While the winds come and go,

With no more fear of the hard frost

Or the bright burden of snow;

And heedless, heedless

If anyone pass and see

On the white page of the sky

Its thin black tracery.