If Trees Had Ears

Do trees feel? No says governor as he puts down his seal But trees have cells just like we do And I say they have souls to Oak stands like a tower It is embodiment of power But long ago it was small Only few inches tall Oak remembers Sava and Vars As lying underneath it they looked up at stars As they joined their love made them one And dynasty they began It remembers when Cleopatra put a snake to her breast And you all know the rest It remembers Normandy and Monte Cassino And asks same questions as we do of wind when it will blow Questions like meaning of life And why along with good there is strife Oak remembers when Neil Armstrong walked on the moon And when whole world was shook by earthquake or a typhoon But oak has life but no consciousness Which brings question what is consciousness? Neural flame is powerful mind maybe most powerful of all But what about neural flame of the soul The connection of all things in universe Or perhaps I should say Omni-verse And compare to this mind what is infinity What is continuity? And if one can count final continuity Isn’t that the only way to be? Conscious free In control of one’s destiny Maybe that is why oak seems sad Because it is essentially dead Or maybe we only think it is dead What do you think about that?