ALPHA WOLF-ED

PEOPLE ARE ALWAYS LIKE TREES

Your mother says

fruit is important.

Your father says

keeping your programmers happy is important.

Our cat says

waking up at six AM to put food in a bowl that is already full

is absolutely critical.

People are single colors,
they are one dimension.

Viewed from overhead

they are skinny and hardly there.

Standing together they make a picture

a feeling, but by themselves they are

brutish, and one color

by itself is always wrong.

You will see,

your mother will say

she never said fruit was important

(it was vegetables all along!)

your father will claim

that he always hated other people's problems,

(if only he could be given a chance to be himself!)

It will all get mixed up.

And let's not even talk about the cat.

People in groups will elect a leader that

doesn't represent them, but stands straightest.

That is why people are like trees, you see,

they stand as themselves 

without context,

without choice,

searching only for the sunlight

they believe in.