MAN AND TREE
R. Sundaresan
A tree rooted into the earth
and sustained by its water of love,
lives longer than man;
even if uprooted and out,
it regrows,
when a piece of its branch
is planted into the soil;
the earth puts life into matter
which seems dead;
man moves above the earth
without sending
his roots of attachment
deep into it;
the earth
has no mercy for him.
who is not rooted in it,
and so, it gives up a dead man
as dead,
once and for all.