Only God Can Make a Tree

Only God Can Make a Tree

Dr Abe V Rotor

Silhouette of a Kalumpang Tree (Sterculia foetida Linn),

Tandang Sora, Diliman QC. Photo by the author circa 1990

The fool who wrote this piece

Would wonder if he did miss

The essence of its message

Or time in its passage.

The trees are gone with the cloud,

Laying a desert on its path,

While the winds applaud

An evil aftermath.

I think I shall finally see

A kind-hearted man plant a tree,

For he who truly loves Thee,

Shall love others through a tree. ~

- AV Rotor, Light in the Woods 1995, Megabooks