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I climb the tree

It's Nature's steeple

In the woods divine

Invigorated

In my spirit

Body and mind

My destiny

Is to illuminate

The world with my song

I cry out from

This vantage point

Into the cosmic sea

Then the cosmos opened my psychic door

And answered me

Shaking me to my soul

Imparting truth and knowledge wise

Dissolving ego and learned lies

Oh, parent of all plants and trees

And beasts and streams

I've broken myself into pieces

How can I recollect?

Oh, parent of all thoughts and hopes

And dreams

A tree is an

Antenna that we

Hug to commune with the

Love and life force

That exists

In everything

A microcosmic

Thread in the

Universal fabric

I submit to

The divine will

And rejoin the macrocosmic whole

Forests are my oases

Where I go to Introspect

And equilibrate

Arms around you and eyes closed

I breathe you in my soul

The calmest warmth washes over me

I'm coming home

To the forest I love

And intend to die in

When I am old

When I enter my

Green sanctuary

My soul realigns

With the axis on which it was

When I was born