you'll be a tree and i a bird - what is the word for bird
i'll peck at your bark till you awaken - baum
at first you'll be small unable to stand my stance - a sapling
and i'll fly off
years will go by and i'll return with different plumage
red one year, blue the next, a brown, perhaps black
inside the same as when we met in human form
i'll peck again and again at your hardened bark till you awaken
each time i stay. nest. lay eggs, sleep until one day
i fall to the ground and get covered by your leaves
descend into the soil
another decade, a score perhaps pass - and i return
live in your trunk. run through your branches that reach the very sky
i nibble on you - you know me now - never forgotten
each of your rings gives a clear moment of when we exist in time
i die and merge into your very bark. i stay there for so
long: i do not remember when you woke me but we travelled together
first through flames then water - each mixture a movement: a transmutation
till we find each other again