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Tell It Like It Is

I am the silent witness that looks down from on high, 
The silent witness who inhales carbon through cleansing veins,
The silent witness that exhales oxygen to give you air,
The lifeline for humanity

I am the silent sufferer of turmoil from the abyss to my roots,
Who breathes the torment of the culling of my brothers and sisters,
Where the haunting silent echoes fall on selective hearing,
The fragility of my realm,
Destruction by humanity 

I am the seasonal encyclopaedia that holds the truth of what has passed,
I hold the truth of our histories within the depths of my trunk,
Certified by the dark circles etched within my core

I am the silent sage who has witnessed your ancestors,
And the silence of their reverence as their spirits brush past my leaves,
My silent testimony is cradled in the soft winds of the Groves,
Between us we whisper and “Tell it like it is”
But not in the tongue of humanity

Yet, though I whisper, 
no human asks for pure testimony,
Shhh! But if you listen – “I will tell you like it is”
But you must open your ears and listen, please listen…..



30/11/22

'Tell it Like it is' competition

Sponser: Mystic Rose Rose

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Beata Agustin

Date: 11/2/2022 2:46:00 AM

Wow! Congrats! Thanks for sharing this reality... poetically exposed and expressed. God bless you.

Valsa George

Date: 11/1/2022 9:26:00 AM

Such an earnest plea from the trees who shudder at the sound of axe falling on them . They whisper in inaudible language what they wish to tell as it is. Let us listen intently what they have to say. Paying a deaf ear to them will invite our own doom. Congratulations on your well deserved win, dear friend.