Learning to Lean.
Why, I ask, do even young moor-trees strongly
out-face each storm flung attack ?
Bark, tho\' wind blasted and gnarled stays alive
with ironized knuckles and scars
learning to lean although pummeled black.
Fragile their shoots grow under-ground claws.
Would that I know just how they survive.
Does innate will-power perceive gale\'s fight aims
to split limb from frail limb
but meets every battle with same inner force
inner force as when rooted in Self skin cells revive ?
Ah now I see mother nature\'s free lesson and
understand how better to thrive.
Like the stance of a bent moorland tree may
all human life-challenge be met
by learning how useful is curving when pain
from stress calls out for help.