Sense Sonnet - Acher

 Destined to Serve

Though I did die I'm happy that

Some human minds and hands changed me,

And now in human habitat,

Useful to human family.

I understand the human need

To kill my kind, and then to change

Us into what's deemed good indeed

For human use, not new or strange,

Forever destiny of wood.

I feel quite fortunate that my

Remains be changed to something good,

A fine and strong wood table, I.

Of service now to human folk,

Once I lived as a mighty Oak.