I sit under this tree.
Life is slow,
and so
it should be,

in the face of nature's show.
I sit and listen closely—
I'm sure I can hear her grow.

So for her,
her age is not a number;
her rings are all that count,

as are the secrets kept within her,
of all she has seen below—
like those who have been kept waiting
by the loves that never show.