If you could speak, or give some sign <br />from your experience, <br />how you would enlighten us <br />with all that you have seen. <br />Your majesty all shaded in green beauty <br />adorns our tedious world. <br />You eat our folly, and give back life support <br />we little do deserve. <br />Food and shelter you freely give to species numerous, <br />with little thanks returned. <br />Time moves slowly in your world, where only seasons count, <br />opposed to our fanaticisum. <br />Would that we could emulate your constancy, <br />and humble sophistication. <br />Oh! wonderous oak, relieve our tormented minds, <br />from life's crassness, <br />so we may live once more in harmony with you, <br />and no more seek for inconsequence.<br /><br />Thomas Norman<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/ode-to-an-oak-tree/
