If Only You Could Hear Me Scream

I awoke from my eternal dream
Internally broken at the seams,
A baby silently dying.
If only when you heard me scream,
You could tell that it was more than normal crying.

I lick my lips and touch snout to plate.
It's only when I lose much weight
Your stark abuse shows a sign.
If only you could hear me scream,
Instead of bark and softly whine.

I spoke through soil with chemicals released,
To warn my friends as I deceased
Of the axe that rends my trunk — it stung.
"If only you could hear me scream,"
I wailed in my subterranean tongue.