In the Company of Trees

In the Company of Trees

The world is a far away place when I am with the trees

It’s the only time I feel free

They speak in a thousand silent ways

knowing silence is my heart’s favorite song

While people speak out of turn too much

without cause

without sense

and think thoughts that only widen the distance between us

making me feel constantly misunderstood

Trees just are and simply let me be

They love me with a love unknown to the world

A love without questions, caveats, or unknowns

A love without end

They take me whole every moment in my forever form

in my formless form

That which is me beyond what the world thinks it sees

Their needs mirror my own

sunlight and water is how I grow

Space and silence how I soar

Together we make art and play

Fantasies come alive in the company of trees

Spirits, sages, ancestors

Surround me in a constant ecstatic dance

I swirl like a falling leave

I swoon like the light bouncing on their boughs

I dream I never have to return

I go on adventures I hope never end

I explore, I search, I learn

And sometimes I even sing

and dance with the trees

Nothing is more graceful and riveting

That the song and dance of the trees

How they sway in the breeze

How they frolic in the shimmering gossamer of the rays of the sun

And I wonder, who would I be if it were just me and the trees

Would I be wilder and braver

Would I constantly sing

Would I still want a dog and a lover

Or would I swim and glide and laugh and sing

And simply just be free