Trees

Do you know trees travel?

Trees chatter & play & trees witness all we do & laugh

& sometimes

cry

Our first friends in the garden

Our mentors, our teachers

Every tree has its story

Every tree has its language

Every tree speaks of an eternal cycle of seasons change & sameness

Every tree speaks of our time in the garden

The good times

The great times

The times that still are when we look ...

Every tree speaks of:

Support

Lean on me

Stand next to me

Recall my love for you, our love for each other ...

As children we climbed trees

We let them carry us with branches for arms

Then we came down as adults and stopped dreaming

And slowly

Began to die.

I walked among trees today & I smiled & I wept & I heard them & was consoled

We shared stories of a time when magic was reality & our reality

Was hell.