Always Water Trees

Water trees with love

Let your heart pour out prayer

and put your soul into your work

of watering trees

The tree that bears you fruit in its season

gives you her all

Nurture her roots with all your devotion

The tongue of corruption

and the teeth of consumption

hunger for the life of the tree

The waters of creation

give strength to the tree

to form an orbit of faith

against her adversaries

The sun also loves the tree

Its greatest joy is to bless her

Now she thirsts, now her arms are weak and wither

She cannot bear the weight of light

Her world has brought her fire and not water

Hatred is harnessed to harvest her

and children are bred with violence

to lay the axe to her root

Pour out your prayers of tears upon her behalf

Pray for the great shaking of the earth

Flood the earth with prayers

Let the earth quake

and allow new waters of creation to rise up

and water the tree of life