The Pear Tree Told Me

Make each moment the best one

and every hour then will be

a better one

until gradually

all around is all there is

and all within will carry you

through your life to inspire

words which lift us all higher.

‘Go within’, release the past

the present is the time that lasts’.

Let go the old that inside dwells

to breathe ever deeply into your cells.

(This verse was written with a fallen red autumn leaf from the Manchurian Pear tree.

Just 17 days later, on May 8, 2015, this lovely tall tree in full leafy autumn colour was suddenly cut down and mulched to a pulp.

What a loss to all life on Earth)