Summer 2007

Down by the hotel.  

Up on the mountain.

I want

I want to look across the room to catch you watching me

I want to roll over and touch you in the morning

I want to wake up early to see the sun rise

I want to dance in the sand under the stars

I want to watch you play with your children

I want to see your smile in their eyes

I want to catch you sharing secrets 

Dancing in your arms

I am a bird

I want to be a bird

soaring in the sky

but I find myself

tethered to my nest

You are the trunk

solid safe unyielding

at times sheltering

others holding me 

to the earth

You are my roots

I fly up into the sky

I will come back to the nest

to be warm safe sheltered

Let me sway in the wind

and jump into the sky

you are a tree

you are a tree

roots deep into the ground

straight and tall

reach into the sky

hard and unbending

you sway in the storm

I hide in your branches

safe in my nest

lost in the leaves

awaiting the fall

unable to see the sky

steady and solid

unchanging growing slowly

you are a tree