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The Tree
Someone asked what would the tree say if it could
speak.
Well, let me tell you the tree does speak we do not
hear because we do not listen to its soft voice.
It tells me that it has stood for many generations and
has witnessed many things some good and some bad, some
happy and some sad.
It speaks of the people and how they are torn apart by
childish things.
It speaks of families turning on each other and
nations not
respecting the ways of each.
It tells of those that say me and not we. It tells of
us not caring for the gifts of the mother earth that
our Creator has given us so that we may live on.
It tells me of the pollution of the earth and waters
and of the pollution of our minds that effect the
spirit even the very air that has been given for us to
breath.
It tells me that it and it's brothers give their lives
freely so we may live and how we take more than we
need and how soon there will be none of it's brothers
left.
It says HO! Look at us our roots are all connected we
sustain each other, we stand tall together.
It asks why we as humans cannot do the same.
Yes the old tree is wise, it speaks the truth we must
but only listen to it's words.
-BLACK ELK