from school. trees that could not stand on their own had fallen to the forest floor. ferns and branches covered the old pathways that i knew. trash and abandoned toys can be found everywhere you look. the birds i use to hear singing right above my head are now far off in the treetops. my forest is quiet. my forest is abandoned. you can no longer see the old ravine because during a lightning storm an ancient pine tree fell across the top of the ravine. now plants have grown over the fallen pine and made it impossible to reach the bottom of the ravine.
if i return to roaming the 