Haunted Sycamore Tree

I made friends with a haunted sycamore tree

We talked about birds and nests and the changing of leaves

She said don't worry about my ghosts they're apart of me

She took a piece of her bark and said here make some tea

Transcendent fire, I boiled the water

She told me bout the seasonal wars with beavers and otters

I said damn, she laughed and pardoned the pun

I sipped the tеa gently, it healed my lungs

Thе steam of the tea wrote in calligraphy

The cursive was fleeting but there was a message for me

I can't describe it with words if i tried it'd be a book

Maybe staring at a sunset while eternity looks?

She said trees don't die, their light goes dim

And even when they're just a stump we send nutrients to them

She said my branches are antennas they're much more than limbs

She said we're all part of earth we're much more than friends

She didn't use words more like telepathic hymns

Vibrational emotions like the voice of violins

Ancient mariner through these rimes I swim

Patient with the derringer the reaper grins

I won't catch a fade the cross hairs won't win

Catcher in the Rye but I harvest within

Crop circles in the sky in a Fibonacci spiral

The sun goes down the moon blooms on arrival

I asked if trees were like hotels for birds?

She said you think give and take in possession and worth

She said hotels are property and they cost a fee

What's a market but a thief? what's lack but grief?

What's death but commodity? money's from a chopped tree

Before a bank robbery, the forest had a robbery

I once saw a mansion, all I saw was poverty

The greatest crime is when they stole curiosity

She said human means clay you're the planet's pottery

The earth spins and we grow her clouds come and water me

She said we were one I didn't charge you for tea

I learn from you and you learn from me

Each one, teach one, that's reciprocity

Each one, teach one, that's reciprocity

Each one, teach one, that's reciprocity

Each one, teach one, that's reciprocity

Paulo's Path