That Tree

 

Featured image: Climbing Tree

A small finch lands on a branch of a tree.

That tree, once so scraggly, is now deep in color.

I wanted to cut it down way back when.

Make more room in the garden, I said.

But we didn’t cut it down, and now it thrives. 

That tree reminds me every time when I look

at its beauty,

that, like that tree, we need to give

others a chance and space to thrive.