I am Learning From the Trees

They have roots but the ground does not hold them hostage

They touch the sky and

They move slowly upward and branch out and they get wide

and they bloom and create

and they lose leaves and branches

but they grow new ones

and their beauty does nothing to add to or diminish their identity or worth

And they do the work of being trees alone but among others

They don’t compete or compare

And they don’t tell each other how to be or what to be ... they just are

And they stand together without having to say anything at all