humming trees | a poem

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a poem about humming trees.

check out the book whose words i stole: http://bit.ly/FALAQS

this video is sponsored by Penguin Random House UK to promote From A Low and Quiet Sea by Donal Ryan - all opinions are my own ✌🏼

let me tell you something about trees:

they understand my favourite word.

empathy

i can hear them say it

in the cold relieving air

silent and still.

empathy is what they’re whispering

when they don’t say anything at all

listen

listen, they ask each other

listen to me and ill listen to you

that’s the heavy quietness that you hear in a forest

when you walk under their shadows

it’s their empathy

raining pressing down on you

a tiny creature from the earth

to understand.

to share.

to know that every body

your body, my body

washes forks

waits for ...