Be The Tree A Pet Poem by Rm. Shanmugam Chettiar

The tree! I find no threat from you
And fell you yet when i want you.
You're the link between elements
And organic matter of life force.

You live on the food that you make
From air, water and the Sun and with it
You meet the need for other lives
And thus keep life force to exist.

You trap carbon and make air pure
For all organisms to breathe
And transpire to moisture the air,
Dispensing with global warming.

Once you were all gymnosperm;
Now you are all angiosperm.
You're the spine of ecology
And the vine of the human's wealth.

To plant a tree and grow must weigh
More than to give birth to a child.
No woman is as lovely as you.
No poem is as beautiful as you.
10.04.2020