Tree-Talk

What does it feel like to be a tree?
To be home to a bird,
A secret hollow for a squirrel.
To have the wisdom of eons gone by……
What does it feel like to be a tree?
To break out into the hues of autumn
Into colours of red, yellow, orange, rust
To have a story to tell for every century
To have a thousand leaves,
Each with a life, and story of its own.
To have the sunbeam caress it every dawn,
And the moonlight dance on it every dusk.
To re-invent itself every autumn,
To be covered by a soft blanket of snow every winter,
To blossom in the spring,
To be a mother to a hundred pretty flowers,
To be an enigma in itself,
To be a source of serenity and help soothe,
and quieten the voices of the mind
What does it feel like to be a tree?
To hurt when pierced by a cruel axe,
To shiver when a flower is plucked,
And yet to continue to be, so forgivingly,
One of nature’s greatest gifts to mankind…

-RIYA