All the seasons merge today

Summer winter spring and fall

Dead leaves blow but new green shoots are sprouting

The winter wind is cold

But I'm sweating in the sun

The sky is blue

Some trees are bare

But the liveoaks and the evergreens

Share their verdant spray with the day

With me, they seem to be saying

Follow me and I will show you the Way to everlasting life

Study me and know 

My roots go deep below

My trunk is strong

My branches pray

My leaves know how to stay ever-perennial

And I share my love and life and shade quietly with anyone

Who will take the time to stare up at the sky with me

In wonder and in awe 

I stare up through its green leaves

There seems to me to be no season

No time, no reason, and not even any curvature of space

Just a beautiful day for members of the human race

To love each other

-jenn