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[ NaPo 2019 ] Arborescence

   
Trees as much as people, we earthbound    
creatures cannot survive beneath another's    
branches without benefit of sun, nor root    
soil so closely for nourishment. She's true    
beauty to marvel over if there ever was one,    
atop a marble pedestal I've placed her upon.      
To rest too long under her leavage, admiring      
her spirited form from breast to bone, is not    
an option. For she is both tree and pedestal;      
a pillar of community who bears the canopy    
of our unity with trained shoulders at times    
strained when my limbs become weak and    
timber is ungrounded. Though these desires    
be interlaced with woven design, let this    
togetherness be spaced; yours being yours,    
mine being mine.    
     
   
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
#KhalilGibran  
 
 
Written by JohnnyBlaze
Published | Edited 11th Dec 2019
Author's Note
for Ahavati with Love 💜💑💋

inspired by Khalil Gibran's "On Beauty" and "On Marriage" from "The Prophet"

for Official DUP NaPo/GloProWriMo 2019 competition @
https://deepundergroundpoetry.com/forum/competitions/read/10707/
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