I used to spend hours and hours just being me, in less peopley woodlands which surrounded the loch (dry) near my home. Probably fairly introverted and hiding away from clear and present personal conflict and avoiding potential new conflict. The entire woodland ecosystem plays a huge role in locking up carbon, including the living wood, roots, leaves, soils, rotting wood and its associated vegetation. All around the world more woodlands are needed to ensure the future has a future and people in the future can have the privilege’s we have.

You asked for a tree

You asked for a tree, so others can breathe

You asked for a tree, so they can see what you can see

You asked for a tree, so they can walk free, with no need to plea

You asked for a tree, so they can feel what you feel

You asked for a tree, to allow clouds to run free, past the dreams that you dream, share the sights that you’ve seen, at dawn to dusk and in between, you asked for a tree

You asked for a tree, so others can see, beyond the air that you breathe, through the haze that you feel, embrace joy with some glee, you asked for a tree

You asked for a tree, to give others the key, so they can paddle through the sea, and waddle carefree, and live diversely, you asked for a tree

You asked for a tree, so others can be, feel loves pain fleetingly, say whatever will be will be, and unearth their qi, you asked for a tree

You asked for a tree, so the future can spree, smell spring and drink tea, loose their first teeth, hear the crunch of the autumn leaf, you asked for a tree

You asked for a tree, so others can choose to disagree, or take shade under a marquee,  just gaze and feel free, or find solace and allow them to grieve, you asked for a tree

You asked for a tree, so other can feel free, to experience their newborns first feed, trip up and skin their knee, and fall from a tree, you asked for a tree

You asked for a tree, so they can spend their bawbees, watch marine life under the sea, believe what they believe, find their sexuality, you asked for a tree.

You asked for a tree, it cant be just about you and me, can it be, is it just about you and me, or eternity, you asked for a tree.

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