A Deciduous Tree In the Forest of Its Dreams

in a forest a deciduous tree with an immortal spirit germinated in a foreign flora while surrounded by evergreens it came from another land where deforestation is the norm from a world of destruction and death after many years this deciduous tree became robust and admirable its trunk sturdy, its branches stout with its green wide flat leaves in the summer, colorful ones in the fall and the winds blew, and the storms came and it was pelted by the rain and hail thunder and lightning attempted to uproot its soul but the tree stood tall, and was not dismantled and all of the evergreens questioned its existence laughed at its appearance said that it was infecting the purity of their sacred evergreen forest and if this tree could think and speak, if this tree could feel it would simply say…. “I only seek a better life in the forest of my dreams.”