Even The Trees Believe

The more slowly trees grow at first, the sounder they are at the core, and I think that the same is true of human beings. - Thoreau

ever diligent with their shade

trees danced and swayed

to music carried in the breeze

people rushed to and fro

here, there, everywhere and nowhere

searching for their car keys

needing to stop and drop to their knees

praying,  "thank you" instead of, "please"

Author's Note

"When, hereabouts, a single forest tree or a forest springs up naturally where none of its kind grew before, I do not hesitate to say, though in some quarters still it may sound paradoxical, that it came from a seed. Of the various ways by which trees are known to be propagated,—by transplanting, cuttings, and the like,—this is the only supposable one under these circumstances. No such tree has ever been known to spring from anything else. If any one asserts that it sprang from something else, or from nothing, the burden of proof lies with him." - Thoreau