Standing Tall

Lined up like soldiers you stand tall and straight at attention like them you guard humanity by providing for us through your shade and ever presence sometimes in your dress of leaves other times dormant, asleep but not though no matter the season or the reason whether as a heat source or inspiration as a haven for insects or resting place for birds the livelihood for a wood pecker or mushrooms you’re there waiting to fulfill your destiny Despite man’s insatiable hunger to mow you down like blades of grass yet it is the oxygen you provide which allows us to live another day the irony of it all even for the tall Andreas Simic©