Last Apple Tree On Earth

Last Apple Tree On Earth
© Surazeus
2025 12 20

The old man in tattered jacket and pants 
waits in the urgent care clinic at noon 
for the winter storm that never arrives 
to shroud the fruit tree on the hill of skulls 
because snowflakes wait in heavenly clouds 
to preserve apple seeds in frozen soil. 

The young boy in brand new pants, coat, and boots 
walks across the field of bright pristine snow 
to stand under the tree where god once hung 
nine days and nights with one electric eye, 
and asks the blind angel with crippled hands 
if he can find the home where no one lives. 

Eyes blinded by strange beauty of the light, 
the young boy in the field of bitter snow 
watches bees drift far across the multiverse 
to sweeten tea of martial-artist seers 
who dance with Death in woods of faceless ghosts 
where psychiatrists burn books of fake poems. 

The seed of the last apple tree on Earth 
explodes from sorrow of the frozen soil 
to shade one spot in the waste land of words 
where couples dance to the Blue Danube Waltz 
before the meteor strikes the spinning globe 
and shatters illusion of paradise. 

In the psychiatrist office of faith 
the young teacher with no children at home 
plays chess with Anger in angelic robe 
but always wins against proverbs of faith 
so she drives circles in the broken car 
around forever in the city maze. 

The car mechanic wanders streets at night, 
reciting poetry of broken hearts 
to telephone poles where angels abide 
that explain the secrets of life he learns 
while pondering lifestyle of the honey bee 
preserved in nature of the avalanche. 

When the teacher and the mechanic meet 
by random chance beneath the frozen tree, 
their hard eyes spark electric flash of love, 
so they hold hands and pledge eternal troth 
but they both die after their son is born 
who stands beneath Tree of Fidelity. 

Raindrops stuck in clouds know secret of love 
so they transform to snowflakes in the cold 
that nurture seeds to grow into fruit trees 
fertilized by bees on the river shore 
so the waste land blooms as Elysium 
where he sees the cute girl riding her bike.