This tree fascinated me with a completely dead centre. At first glance it looked like a normal tree but the life was formed around what had died a long time ago.
Life comes as a surprise
Not always following careful plans
My thoughts how it should look
Perfection is green fingers praising the sun
Resting on strong shoulders branching out
Wide and high – shading the earth below
Deep roots drawing from a source
far below the surface,
The surprise comes from looking closer
Finding at the centre – not the edges
Life formed around death
What has died – long ago
Beginning new life, now its source
By dying becoming the frame
Shaping life that emerges and dies again
Forming a different unexpected beauty
The surprise that belongs in all life.
