The Tree II

3: 1  Everything starts innocent, 

Like a seedling Pushing through the soil, 

3: 2  New, green, and uncorrupted, 

Before what’s below starts to toil,

3: 3  Roots dive deep, Into the unknown, 

Into evils keep, 

3: 4  Slowly it sinks in, What was buried,

What was forgotten,

 3: 5  It changes the tree, It twists, and it creases, 

It’s not what it was, All goodness ceases,

3: 6  For centuries it will stand, 

Patiently waiting, Possessing who it can, 

Deep in its roots, The fates of man

JEV