English Engelska الإنجليزيّة
I used to place my hand on the pine.
To decode the bark, and enter the tree's world.
I used to write poems.
Poems large as the atmosphere and light as air.
Poems that whistled in the treetops and rendered worlds around the stems.
I used to see that each tree was an individual. A new acquaintance reminding of old friends.
I used to wrap my arms around the stem and climb.
Green needles in the hair and my hands smelled like resin.
The branches were my ladder to the sky.
Now I place my keycard on the reader on the door.
To be swallowed by the office landscape's jaw.
Now I read texts with serifs sharp as knifes.
Contracts, ads , updates and reminders to accept the new terms of how fine-grained pieces the data will grind me into.
All trees look the same. Somewhere is a document describing the profit of cutting them.
I stand before the pine and think of the day it will fall.
The stem will become rich people's coffins.
The treetop will be grinded into chipboards and turned into coffins for the poor people's final rest.
Since the last time i hugged a pine
it has been seven years
and I have been piereced by
seven hundred thousands rows of contract text.
"If to be ‘Elder’ – mean most pain –
I’m old enough, today"
I embrace the pine.
I hug my own urn.
To decode the bark, and enter the tree's world.
I used to write poems.
Poems large as the atmosphere and light as air.
Poems that whistled in the treetops and rendered worlds around the stems.
I used to see that each tree was an individual. A new acquaintance reminding of old friends.
I used to wrap my arms around the stem and climb.
Green needles in the hair and my hands smelled like resin.
The branches were my ladder to the sky.
Now I place my keycard on the reader on the door.
To be swallowed by the office landscape's jaw.
Now I read texts with serifs sharp as knifes.
Contracts, ads , updates and reminders to accept the new terms of how fine-grained pieces the data will grind me into.
All trees look the same. Somewhere is a document describing the profit of cutting them.
I stand before the pine and think of the day it will fall.
The stem will become rich people's coffins.
The treetop will be grinded into chipboards and turned into coffins for the poor people's final rest.
Since the last time i hugged a pine
it has been seven years
and I have been piereced by
seven hundred thousands rows of contract text.
"If to be ‘Elder’ – mean most pain –
I’m old enough, today"
I embrace the pine.
I hug my own urn.