The wisdom found in silence

The gumtree’s branches climb towards the heavens,
It dances with the flowing wind.
It’s ghostly branches full of lush green leaves, home to so many,
glimmer in the sunlight, 
like stars fallen from the sky.
They nearly touch the clouds, up so high.

The gumtree is immortal with no sense of time.
Human events just a small ripple in its ocean of a life.
Though ever silent the gumtree is wise,
watching from its unreadable eyes.
With no stress to uncoil,
it’s roots cling to the soil like tightly tied ribbons,
grounded and strong.

The gumtree does not hold onto the past,
shedding its dead leaves fast.
They crunch under my bare feet as I pass by,
drifting into my hair.
Maybe we should all be like this gumtree,
All we have to do is care.