BANYAN TREE

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​Grow

 

Let your body flow 

 

Slow 

 

Time is just a stumbling block 

 

All your leaves are passing skin 

 

Get ready for a new spring 

 

When I’m a drained, dry tree 

 

I don’t let the wind dissolve me 

 

 

RIT. 

 

I become a little higher 

 

every time I’m reborn 

 

when I die there’s no fire 

 

that could burn my armor 

 

I’ve been a twig 

 

a seedling 

 

that you’ll not break so easily 

 

when I’m small 

 

a little ghost 

 

underground my roots are grown 

 

you used to tread on my flowers 

 

now sit under the shade of me 

 

 

 

Home 

 

My branches are the safest nest 

 

Voices 

 

Spirits make the wood that I am

 

My soul has always been here 

 

Is made of all breaths passed near 

 

I was just a little seed 

 

And now a temple 

 

Standing still 

 

 

RIT. 

 

 

Always anchored in this soil 

 

I plunge my legs into the ground 

 

My head turned to the sky 

 

I need , I live for sunlight 

 

An ancient stream 

 

Reflecting me 

 

The sky is over my feet 

 

I never thought so easily 

 

A shade could turn my reality 

 

I’m just a seed 

 

A little seed 

 

But I’ll become a Banyan tree 

 

I’ll disappear 

 

I’m nothing 

 

I will survive under your skin 

 

 

RIT. 

 

 

Grow 

 

Let your body flow

 

Slow 

 

Time is just a stumbling block