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To Chop Or Not To Chop

It is surprising how easily people chop down trees ...

Even after these have quietly and invisibly grown
For a decade or two.

It is almost a vengeful act,

As if the tree has done something that it should not have,
Acting with impunity.

There is something sacrilegious about this ease
Of felling.

An inability to appreciate or just gross disrespect ...

For the work it has done in growing itself
Silently

Without asking anything of anyone
Without a murmur or a whisper.

Cells have been nurtured and roots have plunged
Deep down or sideways
Depending on its Nature.

Branches have reached out towards the light
Each with a mind of their own
Their plan
Effortlessly unfolding.

Some see only a mess in the tangle:

Pointless crazy random bending and arching
Geometric only in minute localised instances of sanity
Thereafter wandering aimlessly.

Others see beauty in the Mystery.