Allegory
Posted by Trix on Feb 26 2009
When the oak tree fell
some people cut a branch, slammed it in the soil,
calling the others to worship the same tree;
some others lamented with elegies
the lost forest, their lost lives;
others made collections of dried leaves,
exhibited them in fairs, earned a living;
others affirmed the perniciousness of deciduous trees,
disagreeing, though, about how to, or even whether to
reforest;
others, and me with them, maintained that as long as
there are earth and seeds, there exists the possibility
of an oak tree.
The problem of water remains open.
–Titos Patrikios