The giant trees that stood sentry at every birth Honouring agreements and breathing our worth Of plancental hearts forged from stars Pumping love from their knotted limbs to ours An agreement as ancient and wide as grace Arranged between mother, cedar, maple and birch We, the charge The trees midwifing our birth They sway at the ready Prepared for the honour The placenta nods at them And breath rushes through their pulp Past rings that hold the stories of fire and rain Past sacred circles of ceremony With the power and speed of a mothers prayer They breathe into our lungs and we accept their gift Crying at the shock and beauty of its perfection Stunned at the depth of our sentry’s affection And the giants spread their arms to shush the land And we breathe our breath back into them Reciprocal relationship for as long as we stand And the giants breathe us in Giants
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