I cried that time when I came home

From the land across the sea

When I walked across the autumn grass

To see my favorite tree

We stood there in the evening light

My favorite tree and I

Remembering the countless times

I’d climbed its branches high

I tried to climb the strong old limbs

As I had done at eight,

But I could not, for those limbs were gone;

The changes were too great.

So when I left my friend alone

Beneath the darkening sky

I cried and cried with unchecked tears

For he had changed and so had I.