Be Like A Tree

Be like a tree
Send roots deep into the earth
Down below the commotion
Down to the soft moist darkness
Down where the cool soothing
Source of nourishment
Births new life

Be like a tree
Spread your wings like branches
Out and up... skyward
Send shoots of new green growth
In unexplored directions
Grow more full and lush
As you stand where you stand
Allowing your being to express
And discover itself in your constancy
Your stillness
Your movement
While maintaining your ground

Be like a tree
Strong and solid
Fluid and reaching
Branching out
But true to you
However you may grow

Be like a tree
Bending and shifting
Swaying and playing
A cacophony of sound
Echoing on the breeze
As your leaves go
Your pages turn
One after another
Chapters written
Like the rings marking time
On the trunk of the tree
You endeavor to be

Be like a tree
Standing your ground
Reaching out to the sky
No wondering why
Just living
And being
From the depths of your roots
To the tips of your top

A tree stands tall
It bends with the wind
It changes as it grows
And will always be a tree

Copyright © 2003 Jodi Flesberg Lilly