Betula

Betula

Saplings all over my yard

I reach my heart out

Listening for hers

I can taste her tingle

just by thinking

She opens

says hello

says 'welcome daughter'

we start again

Fearless

in the arms of Mother

and the sky of father Sun

we re-create

I am sweetest

on a warm day

after a deep sleep

I am strongest

with my family all around me.

I am most happy

when there is sun on my skin

and space for me to claim.

I am versatile

but never a pushover

I have my place in this world.

My Medicine is new

and it is old.

I heal the wounds

unhealed by time.

Open your heart, child,

we are all in this together.

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