Saturday, September 14, 2024

The goddess in the tree


To have lived so long; to have survived; 
To have carried so many burdens, and still 
Be so brim full of life — 
What character remains; what richness, 
And what beauty in the wrinkles and the lumps; 
What stories must lie, simmering 
Beneath this variegated surface! 
I bow before the wisdom 
Of the goddess, hidden in the tree.

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