Music:
De sal de linguagem feita.
By Lovira.
Performed by Lovira at the
Free Music Archive
under a Creative Commons
Attribution-ShareAlike license.
Hear me read
the poem as
an MP3 file.
Watch me
read
the poem as
a YouTube video.
Copyright by
Nicholas Gordon
All of us can take our cue from trees,
Relating only symbiotically,
Becoming just what those who need us need
Out of need for all that they can give.
Remember: Without trees we could not breathe.
Dependence rests on dual dependencies,
As birds who seek their shelter sow their seeds.
Yet we destroy the friends we need to live.
Copyright by Nicholas Gordon. Free for personal or non-commercial use.
Subscribe to this site on Substack
Subscribe to this site on YouTube