Atmosphere

 

 

Great oak soak up life in downpour

More to be with you as I watch

This sacred right last to thee

Larger and living in abundance

Red center veins of thirsty relief

Ring to tell your time on earth

Much longer than bipedal thought creature me

Leave your leaves

Intact in green to shade my skin

And grow my need to love you

Feed on air we share in two-fold

Harmony all around in earthen ground

You balance out the concrete and steel

And keep alive natures place

As real and ambivalent to mans

Control of your ancient role as keeper of

This planet and the roots of its soul