PAIN tree

The pain grows deep
as roots from a tree,
down 

down
down into the dirt,
where darkness sleeps. 

If the roots could choose
whether to dig and toil
in that sad soil

Or grow,
up 

up 

up towards the light…
 

Which direction would it go?

or deeper still if you will
see the TRUTH

Truth is in both leaf and root. 

The light, O so beautifully bright
so hard and unforgiving, the dark.