I wrote this one about nine years ago now. It came about from a dream I had where I found myself waking up in the dream as a tree and spending most of the year not realising that’s what I was. I was looking at the world through my human eyes not understanding how things where for me as a tree.
The Human Tree
All comes into question, a new perspective
A change of dimension
New sides showing their faces
Their colours confusing but warm
I am enveleloped within this new world
Like a newborn child I gaze unknowing
Unaware of what is to become
And so the wheel turns again
Changes loom on the horizon of life
Fear ebbs away as realisation dawns
And happiness rises to it’s full glory
Those illuminating rays that shine down on me
Purify my leaves reaching out
My roots instilled with new life
And so I grow
Green shoots reach out
Soothing tendrils of flame engulf
Entwining within unforseen harmony
Dischordant doubts take flight
My boughs now free to sway
And beside me the lake
Tranquil and shimmering
My collection of tears happy in release
I shed another as I gaze down
To peer across the lake I see other trees
And so I understand, I feel
I am awake
What are these beasts that reside below me?
Are they my thoughts
Fears, emotions, what are they?
My fruit nourishes them, they are content
At harvest, time of fall
Where will they go, will they leave?
Or do other purposes hold them to me?
Why won’t they speak, why do they stare?
What are they waiting for, ahhh I see
I creak as I smile, as I let go
And so the first leaf falls
And so the wheel turns again
As far as poetry(as a whole – not just yours!)goes I really like this one! XXX