around every circle

          -in a tree

there is another circle.

there are circles in

the truck

          -of a tree

there are circles in

a branch

          -of a tree,

there are circles in

the twigs

          -of a tree.

Life is like the circles

in a tree.      

          -Life.

like the tree,

just keeps expanding

          -cocooning

the circle before it,

          blanketed

by the soft beginnings of

          the next circle. 

          life

is like the circles in a

          tree -

always in

perpetual motion

surrounded by

          the cocooned

power of history. 

cushioned by

          the shield and

wonder of eternity.