The sphinx winks, whispers in the blowing breeze, of trees.
Saplings growing, grappling for girth in the Earth.
Of rings, each tree sings.
Past selves, hells,
thin rings from winters, harsh, stark,
summers too dry to grow good bark,
but also bliss, rainful Aprils thick with this,
of lovers carving names and hearts, tattoos, scars, body parts,
painful, but sweet like rain.
His mane sways like a dancer to the fiddle,
before I answer the riddle.
We are the same. Humans and trees.
We hide inside us, the selves we once were,
which stack in layers like nesting dolls,
each outside the former as we grow outward.
We bear marks, both good and bad,
deep inside where no one sees.
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