A simple tree that was caught in a farmer’s wire:

Grey and limber, thin and strong branches

Climb the hill in the distance, reaching towards the sun.

 

It is a simple tree that can take the electricity out of the air.

It can bring a calming silence to the chaotic world around me.

It is always ready to hold up my exhausted body.

 

It is a simple tree that has stood the test of many summers and winters;

It bore the weight of many storms,

And the time of many years.

 

Waiting calmly for me next to the babbling brook,

The simple tree takes away all my worries.