Year of the Tree 2022: Dead Tree Walking

 Year of the Tree 2022: Trees for Peace  

Dead Tree Walking 

     "I came from Paradise lost, would you walk with me?"

Dr Abe V Rotor 

Living with Nature - School on Blog

Limb of a dead tree resembling a headless

human figure, España, Manila 2007

I am the ghost that walks

     from a forest before;

I am the conscience of man

     sleeping in its core.

I am the memory

     from the distant past;

lost among the throng,

     living in the dust.

I came from Paradise lost,

     orphaned by the First Sin;

the hands that cared for me

     can't now be seen.

I long for a heaven, too,

     a gift of being good and true,

but if heaven is only for man,

      I did serve him through.

But I am a ghost now.

     Would man join me for a walk

to tell the world the story

     of a once mighty oak? ~