There once was a garden that the whole world forgot 
It was left just to grow, first to live then to rot 
It glowed golden in summer through the leaves of the trees 
But the sun never saw what was torn underneath 
Under foot, under root, the whole garden was breaking 
With each day gone unseen every atom was aching 
Through the earth and the water ran away a disease 
That cut deeper and faster with each unwitnessed breeze 
With such beauty and splendor, every petal alight 
The whole garden was waiting for someone to catch sight 
Still, the silence continued through winter and spring 
With the world unobservant of a beautiful thing 
So the rot grew yet stronger and the disease took its hold 
Tearing trees from the sky to the darkness below 
As the water ran dry and the petals lost life 
All the flower heads fell at a new summers light 
Took a year and a day for the garden to fall 
Every weed, every tree, no matter how tall 
Now a scar in the earth is what's left of that life 
Not a match to the beauty of a garden of light 
But a beauty unseen is a dangerous thing 
as it rots from its core just to kill from within