What can the oak tree lean on?
What does the oak tree lean on?
Buffeted by winds on all sides
Standing firm, but shaken too
Stirred from within
A rustle through the leaves,
Then silence.
What can the oak tree lean on?
Does it remember: it
was an acorn?
It came from an oak tree too
That tree, now gnarled
Knotted, withered
Yet standing.
Roots entrenched deep,
Earth its anchor,
A little bent maybe
Still steadfast.
Our oak stands up straighter,
Digs deep into its reserves
Squares its branches
A ripple shakes the leaves
The oak straightens up,
Ready for the storm.
