eric sundin

A tree will grow
almost anywhere
perfectly slow
of what, whom aware?

We cannot you or me
thrive between boulders
Lacking unlike the tree
patience, behold hers!

In Nature’s fashion bedight
to torrid heat or freeze inured
in dark or blinding sunlight
has stoically endured

Against faint skyline etching
foliage edges clear
Imperceptibly stretching
the tree shall persevere

While trees shivering in still silence
humans rage in chainsaw violence

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bedight = adorn; to dress or decorate especially in splendid or impressive attire

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