Don’t Trim Trees Just To

Don’t trim trees
Just to build houses
Trim some to make homes
Don’t trim trees
Just to obtain wood for hearths
Trim some to warm cold hearts
Don’t trim trees
Just to have flagpoles and ledges
Trim some to build patios and bridges

Don’t trim trees
Just to harvest leaves and fruits
Trim some to live and know the truth
Don’t trim trees
Just to make sheaths and hilts
Trim some to make sheets of paper and pencils
Don’t trim trees
Just to tell stories and myths
Trim some to weave legends and dreams

- 11:35 p.m., March 3, 2004, Wednesday; Surrey, British Columbia
(While listening to “[Nothing But] Flowers” by Talking Heads [Naked; 1988, EMI])