There's Something About Trees

In this place of green, limbs reaching in greeting,
Welcoming me back--why did you leave?
Stay a while with us,
Nudging each other out of the way,
Trying
To sneak a peak.
Like a grade school picture,
From a distance all order and peace.
Close up each a personality to be seen.
I want to know more

My heart flutters as we race by.
How you cling to such precarious places,
all balanced in the sky.
What have you suffered? 
What have you seen?
The wizened ones nod their heads.
So much has changed around you...
There's too much to be said

I could brush through their skirts,
Cling to their strength and never let go.
But as I breathe in their life,
Their scent,
They tell me...
We know