Christmas is rebirth!

 

TWO WEEPING WILLOWS

(By: Karla Wagener on October 31-November 1, 2020)

        Revelation 21: 1-8

Some men are cutting down the two willows on our land.

They were like sleek gentle lovers.

I can hear the crashes of logs and branches blasting out.

The saw hums; the thumps pound.

The willows no longer cry or whisper.

They no longer sing to each other.

They won´t give shade anymore or dirty the land or the house

With their many branches and leaves.

 ¨All things to be made new¨.

Parasites had destroyed both trees´ insides,

Like jealousy and possessiveness destroy tender lovers.

They were so tall, so old, so very proud!

So very beautiful, graceful, humid.

It causes sadness.

Yet they will cry no more.

¨All tears, all tears

Will be wiped away¨.

¨All things to be made new¨.

We still don´t have the imagination or creative power

To realize and assimilate this delicate, so intricate hour

Until we too have been cut down;

At best to be renewed and begin to grow again.