green friendship

there once was a child
who befriended a tree
who grew carelessly in front of his door;
But the tree started taking care of his limbs
just barely scratching his knees,
when he was not being gentle and kind;
the tree grew taller and straighter
with time, the child grew wiser
and one day he left home to go far;
when he let go of the tree
he hurt his arm, and got a scratch on his knee;
he took many steps on the road that he chose,
and he chose to walk many roads,
but the vertical path, and the need to grow up,
the joy to swing with the wind,
and the need to stay clean,
that he learned from his tree
these are lesson that stay with him.