The Tree (China)

THE TREE (China)

Each leaf shivers as the wind blows

A time of change of which no one knows

The winter is ending, the spring is dawning

Mankind awakening from slumber, yawning

To face this new day we must cleanse

Shake off the past with each stretch, each bend

For prepared or not we must face strife

To justify our new hope, new life

When this moment is done and the winds subside

Look to the tree and surmise

Which leaf is left and which is falling

Matters not as the tree is green, pure and growing

-Shiidon, ZhuHai China, 7/14/2000

I was in a state of change in many ways when I wrote this ten years ago. It seems hard for me to believe that ten years and what seems a lifetime have passed in what strangely seems like but a moment.