For ten years now
I’ve watched this tree
lose life gain life
lose color gain color
and grow
because of it.
Now a woman
sits below it
with more life
than I have known
and lost
again, all
my leaves are gone
stripped down bare.
This coarse bark
is all the I
that I am.
Hope is
a budding leaf.
This poem has not been translated into any other language yet.
I would like to translate this poem
coarse*. Hope is a spiritual clap - but that's where you and i differ. cheers! goldy