And so the weary old man planted a seed, <br /> beside the wall of God, <br />after many lost forgotten years, <br /> a tree sprang forth from the earth, <br />seeing the tree the old man rejoiced, <br /> singing praises to the Lord of creation <br />and after, the old man at his now great age <br /> laid down by the tree, fell to sleep and died. <br /> <br />In the night of his death <br /> the tree gave forth a light, <br />the light was so brilliant in its glow, <br /> that it covered the land miles around. <br />When morning came people arrived to see, <br /> the miracle of this illumined tree <br />but the tree had withered, fallen to the ground, <br /> the people looked for the man and the tree <br />but none could tell one from the other, <br /> for the tree and man had grown together <br />and they had died together, <br /> the tree had grown within him <br />and together they became one, <br /> now their purpose served and at an end, <br />all life from them had gone, <br /> leaving only on the earth shadows in the sun.<br /><br />Richard Allen Beevor<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-old-man-and-the-tree-2/
