Our Tree

What did I do to water the plant today?

This bond is our most precious organism of mental intimacy

Requiring tending as any iris or canine

The water, the phosphate, the muscle tissue

The processes of time apply

The gorgeous tree of apple blossoms if left

Festers: rot, drought, wilt, or decay

So that the very sun which feeds its limbs

Without supplement for balancing thirst and hunger

Will die

So in I give to you these words

Our organism is more important to me than my ego

For our organism is half of me

For when I ignore or neglect our organism

I am suffering

Anger, condemnation, criticism, blame, threats,

Punishment, controlling are poison

Prioritizing the self over the unified one

The inevitable flaws of human frailty encourage one to grasp

For the deflection of pushing down the other to raise the self

For in our organism this drowns us both

Listening, support, encouragement, respect, trust

Acceptance, and always negotiating our disagreements

Are air, are life, are food

To leave the spear head in our abdomen like a stinger

Overnight in our bed is to allow the thief into our vault

Our sanctuary becomes shadowed in accuser and accused

The mutuality of lightness browns as our fruit awaits the buzzards

We create a foul fallow harvest in such exchanges

Let us breathe the thanksgiving of honest discourse into that which is greater than each

To be one