What is it about the trees

What is it about the trees

That makes my heart dance?

Where you and I vanish,

Where we become one.

The color green, the color of love,

The color of Mother Earth.

Where I come from and will return—

Speaking to me in every language.

Don’t you love us anymore?

I gave you life, they say

I sit, stare, hugging them, listening to the birds

Their song, straight to my heart.

I yearn to be with them

I cry when it’s been too long

Wisdom, beauty, strength

They teach me this and more.

Walking among them, I feel love

What is it about trees that makes us one?