Humanity rooted
Entwined deep in dirt and soil
Winding around rocks and stone
Unfurling with twisting spiral
Uncurling searching for life in the dark
Fingers down to the bones of the earth
Sending tendrils to feed on the past
Bringing nourishment to the future
Nourishment that climbs the winding way
Rising in concentric circles that betray age
Surrounded by rough protection
Liquid memories move slowly ever upward
The path tied in knots
New pathways created by persistence
Sturdy trunk grown massive with the ages
Centuries of strife causing malformations
Centuries branching out in limb
Each limb a step on a living ladder
A rung broken gives birth to two
Stretching in search of sky
Two become a hundred with expectations
Wishes unfurl to capture sunlight
Bright green in their innocence
Unknowingly they wave goodbye
Memories blossom and flower
Pregnant with the past
The wind carries their hopes on swirling breeze
Thoughts that drift a distance unknown
Alight and grow new root in fresh soil
Spiralling down to a distant past
Looking to the future
And life goes on, history in a poem. Another winner.
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