Among the Cedar Trees

The trees of red cedar

Lining all the walks

A manmade forest

Disguising the human realities

Behind all the filigree

I look at your tops

Swaying in the breeze

And I imagine myself in a mountain place

I walk down the path

To encounter a young student

Reading her book in momentary solitude

Our curious eyes briefly meet in silence

The trees connect us all

Beneath their shade

Cast down

Upon the same world

Of the same bark and leaf

The same flesh and blood

With the same seeds

And the same needs

The same fires

And similar desires