Shade Beneath my Mango Tree
By: Mia Scemla
The shade beneath my mango tree offers the sweet taste of tranquility.
Stepping out of my haven, the sun burns.
Leave me be beneath my mango tree.
I belong in the shadows of the sweet to hide from the intensity of the bitter.
Lost within the small backyard of my mind.
Envious of the sun’s warmth,
The branches of my anger
the leaves of my sorrows
The trunk of my transparency.
Oh, shade beneath my mango tree
I wondered and watered your branches, your leaves, your trunk.
As the days grew, so did you and your shade.
Until, finally, the sun too hid in the shade beneath my mango tree.