One day walking in the woods I found these trees wound together. They weren't of the same species and I was awed by the way they seemed to live a symbiotic relationship with one another. One even had grown into the other supplying life with sap, drinking at the roots even sharing photosynthesis.
How would it be if we looked at differences as something that feeds each other. We are so polarized in our society by taking sides we forget to look at each other as human. As even being a gift from God to each other. We need to not look at each other as throw away and not valid if they articulate a different opinion.
These trees certainly seemed to mirror this living in union with one another even though they are so different.
Trees twined
together
A treasure and
comedy in the woods
Pine and poplar
Pine strong and
straight
Poplar wound round
How did you root
together?
So close, touching
each other,
Touching into one
another
Grown into the other
One twining reaching
for the sun
Til split, your
branches raised to the light
Round the robust
pine of the forest
Two as one and yet
so different
Barks different
One dark and rough
One light and smooth
Yet joined in life
Reaching toward the
creator
Side by side
Wound in the dance
Of life
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