What determines a person’s role in your life?
What makes one person plant roots, while another becomes leaves subject to the change of life’s seasons? Then, there’s some people that are branches. They take hold but when hard circumstances come along, they too can be cut off. How do you know in whom should you take root and let take root to you?
Life has me feeling like a leaf, waiting for the fall when I’m let go for brighter, fresher and more desirable leaves. A leaf at the mercy of the wind, rain, even sunny days. It hasn’t nothing to do with my desire to stay, life dictates my remain. From a brisk wind to a child collecting pretty colors, I can be snapped away. Your tree of life will feel no pain and replacing it’s leaves are effortless.
I was let go once, snapped away by life’s changes but you returned. Had I actually become a part of you, maybe a branch. In what circumstance will you let me go again? Trimming back for greater growth. Will I become dead weight? I have to think breaking away a branch is a harder undertaking, maybe even a pain’s taking task. Will it hurt to snap me once more? To break free of me, will it be a necessity? What need will it meet? Will it be a mission in order to preserve the life you dream?
Think for a minute, have I taken root? Is that a scary thought to have? To be rooted to the point where without me, your existence you can’t see? Is it the fact that being rooted means exactly that, no you without me? Have you ever perceived being rooted as a delight? Have you ever seen me as someone that just might be the one? Because you have planted yourself deep within me. You are embedded in the root of my heart, my life and to remove you now….. Well, can a tree live without it’s roots?
June 13, 2007 at 2:12 pm
This does seem to be the million dollar question doesn’t it? Sigh. I don’t know my lady. But a tree cannot indeed live without its roots. Great post. kim
June 13, 2007 at 6:06 pm
Yeah, I guess it is the million dollar question…(hmmm) I could sure use a million dollars
If I don’t find the answers, it’s not for the lack of trying. Is there a prize for effort? Thanks for the comment, Kim.
June 20, 2007 at 8:45 pm
Good thought provoking write up Pink. I often wonder about the people that come in and out of my life; what reasons, what purposes. Sometimes it’s really odd and funny how certain things pan out.
June 27, 2007 at 12:21 am
Kim, this is such a brilliant analogy and you’ve used it so incredibly well! As the other Kim said, this really is the million dollar question – how much impact and weight do we carry in others’ worlds?
July 9, 2007 at 5:26 pm
Wow…thats the word that comes to mind when I ‘feel’ this poem! Makes one wonder why they haven’t ever perceived life in this way before as it seems so natural to do so!
To be honest Maliq, I took this concept from a Kelly Price song, Friend of Mine (Remix). In that song she says to her husband that the other woman is a leaf to him, and she the root in his tree. It got me thinking…
July 9, 2007 at 6:19 pm
Thanks Justin, Molli and Maliq for the comments. And Maliq don’t be a stranger, im going to blogroll ya…
July 13, 2007 at 3:49 am
I’d like to link to this on my page called My Time To Heal. I think this is a thought provoking writing that should be read by those seeking roots in healing. There are ups and downs (cuttings, things beyond our control like being picked off by children exploring or the sun too hot, the wind too strong. There are things that change, circumstances that dictate change but for survivors the final goal is rooting with self.
Can I link to this entry?
Austin of Sundrip
Be my guest Austin, as long as I don’t lose credit for my work I’m happy and grateful when others want to showcase it… Don’t be a stranger and I’ll visit you soon.