Walking home in the dark, melodic music chiming in my ears softly. Before me is an old tree. This tree has been there my whole life, I walk past it every single day. I appreciate the tree on windy days because whenever I walk past it, it sounds as if the wind is talking as it is being tared by the small leaf-like branches. The sound of the wind is amplified so much that it is hypnotizing.
Tonight, with no reason as to why I was going to do it. I approached the tree and tore off a branch. I pocketed my headphones and I swung the branch from left to right and listened as it cut straight through the wind.
I walked a little further so that my house was in sight, my parents were home. I wanted to take the branch with me, but there was no way I could bring it inside without them knowing. So to avoid the obvious questions of why I was bringing a branch into the house, I placed it between another tree and an empty beer bottle that had remained there for days. In hope that I see it again the next day to listen to it once more.
That single tree is beauty. Made as an instrument to conduct the wind. Made to voice the cries its as it travels across the world.
I couldn't help but think: was that the tree speaking to me, or the wind? Like English, Arabic, Greek, Italian, Spanish, Lebanese, Hungarian and many more languages that are spoken right under the same sky, I believe that nature possesses its own very unique language.
3 comments:
Yeah let's just rip the limb of a poor defensless old tree lol. That's just like when people say that dogs and cats can't talk. But they can, just not any language we know...
In its own way every living thing talks to us in some language we will most likely never understand ever but it talks and we can only think of what it might be saying to us. With wind i think that soft wind means a harmonic wave saying that it feels secure and almost happy but as you see i have always thought that if it was extremely harsh wind even ones that help create the tornados i always thought that the message it was portaying is the fact that it is angry at the world and its trying to tell us something.. who knows really everyone has there own opinion. As for the tree branch i dont really understand why you pulled the limb off ... i can see why you thought it was beautiful but then if it is beautiful why did you break off the limb of a tree, was it bothering you?
if i had a seed of that tree, id take it home with me, but instead, the i wanted to take the sound with me, so i tore off a small branch because, simply, i liked the sound and i wanted to take it with me. however, its been days and i still havent had the chance to pick it up from the ground...but i know its still there, i even walked past it again today..its amazing how its just untouched.
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