Same Tree-Robin Jackson

I had a dream last night I lived in the ground My roots dug down deep With every breath A thousand leaves would shake And the old earth would creak I had a dream last night My roots were a love song Hands clasped tight For a million years With all of my sisters and all of my brothers We all cry the same tears The way the wind blows the waterfalls We are a part of it all The breath inside of you inside of me So much these days is us and them Caught up in a case of othering’ But we all come from We all come from the same tree I had a dream last night The sky was burning Ashes on my tongue from a page that needs to turn Anger is the spark of a world that’s learning You can’t fight fire with fire or there’ll be nothing left to burn Divisiveness and righteousness Are wind upon the flames Underneath the words we speak We are all the same A trunk is a passage from the earth to the sky In the roots we are born and we all will die The way the wind blows the waterfalls We are a part of it all The breath inside of you inside of me So much these days is us and them Caught up in a case of othering’ But we all come from We all come from the same tree