A tree grows and provides pure air.
A man grows and consumes it.
The tree keeps giving as it ages.
The man keeps breathing as his anger rages.

A leaf falls one day from a branch.
The man has a fall from grace.
The leaf lands silently on the ground.
The man dies loudly with a rasping sound.

The shed leaf feeds a new born oak.
The man has an oaken casket.
The new oak grows and creates more air.
The dead man lies decomposing there.

The growing oak sustains new life.
New men partake of its gift.
These men will cut more trees down
to plant new men beneath the ground!

And so the trees keep blessing,
and so we keep destroying.
The trees’ lives are spent only giving.
Men spend lifetimes preventing them from living.

But what if there were only trees
and not a single man?
In the larger scheme man is really quite small.
He wouldn’t be missed at all.