Life As a Tree

Light
illuminating
life as a tree
with wrinkled
trunks of
character and
prickly ends
of sap,
pulling and
pushing it
back to earth.
Life resists 
and  retracts
to what is
right which 
is Earth’s
natural light.
Copyright © | Year Posted 2010

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