Systems 

The trunk, the leaves, the seeds, the fruit:

These are the visible parts of the tree.

But what about the sap, the root?

Aren’t these just as important to the vitality?

And what about the rain, the wind?

The stars throughout the farthest cosmos 

Send forth their rays of energy.

It’s not just the sun that shines.

What about you? What about me?

Are we not also an integral component 

Of every tree?

And what about you?

What about me?

Are we not a part of one another?

Are we not a complex system, too,

Like the tree, with roots that are hidden,

Beyond our fathers,

Beyond our mothers?

Are you not a living beam of energy,

Affected by the stars that shine

From the farthest depths of the galaxy

And beyond?

Is not every essence of existence, 

Any possible creation, seen or unseen,

A spectre of systems that spring forth

All from the same great intangible source

That may, or may not, be hidden from us,

That we may, or may not, become aware of

At some point of realization that we could perceive,

If we could just get

Beyond our beliefs.

-jenn