The Whispering Tree

This is a magic tree

It changes everything

Whispering,

Whispering


I wonder what time will bring

To this school boy's imagining

I wonder what tricks of fantasy

Will dazzle the eyes of those who see

I wonder what hope will grow from here,

The wonderer ends her vagrant year

All fragrance and freedom are flowering now

As she sleeps seduced beneath the bough

In her induced dreams she can clearly see

That this is clearly a magic tree

It changes, 

Changes everything

Whispering,

Whispering

Whispering of the velvet thing

Brushing past your ear

Tickles your imagining

Year after year, after sun soaked year,

Whispering, what can you see?

Whispering, do you see me?

Whispering eternally

What is it that you want to be?

The magic tree,

Our magic tree,

Is placed where none

But all can see

It makes the blinded eyes to be

beholding muddied mirrored cheeks

Reflected in spit dried tight-skinned eyes

That show ugliness without compromise,

Whispering, whispering

I am changing everything

The magical reflection

In reality changes only your perception

For what is now was always known but hid

You have merely lifted the lid       

This tree is a magic tree

It's never too far away to see

A lightening rod for mystery

a blot for sailors lost at sea

a blot on the horizon's opaque line

Summoning sojourners home in time

What does it change?

Everything

How does it call?

By Whispering

Whispering

It was his purring pulling me in

Drawn to the hum of the hive

This tree has heart

It is alive

And grafted in I will survive

Hung out

Nailed up

engulfed by creaking tree-skin

truncated man-flesh, he is sealing me in 

my limbs protrude like ivy creeping

He changes, changes everything

whispering

with his purring

further up

and further in

This childs' drawing

drawing in

in 78

In my family's kitchen