arboreal

The trees want to tell the birds about loftiness, about care,
about falling in the forest and asking if your body is a song.

And the birds should know about dirt too, and roots,
about becoming something new, but remembering.

The forest, the trees sing, misses you when youre gone.

There is only one prayer we know,

where we are old and tell the sky
about your childrens children.