Like Trees

We need be like dem trees. See dis tree? Is tall and old. Is grown; mature. Look here at its skin. Cracked and wrinkled. Like grandma's. See how broken it looks? But it ain't broken. Is strong. See, 'cause when da tree is a baby tree it has one bark. One big bark that covers it up, but when da tree grows bigger and stronger it don't need da little bark no more so it breaks it with da new bark. da bigger, stronger tree still uses da dead little bark to protect itself and protect da new bark. It ends up with lots a dead barks. Lots a layers and strengths. Also like grandmas. But see, Inside da tree is strong too, it's very strong. And it gets big. We should be like these trees because we should know what we were, and now we need to be who is; big and strong. Reaching out all over da place and holding up da sky and cracking through da rocks. People is like sky and rocks too. Some is mystical and float around, others is solid and unmoving. We should be like trees to dem 'cause see, we is da middle now. Trees is in da middle. We is solid but break. We move but we're solid. See, trees have da right idea, I think. dey know how to be both and neither. Trees is smart like that. 'Cause see Trees hold da truth. We hold da truth too. Daddy gave it to us and now, like da trees, we have to hold da earth together with da truth. He gave us long fingers and big minds so that we can hold da solids like ground and da thinks like air. We is breaking and we is cracking and we is falling because Daddy loves us too much. It's so much we don't even know. So much we can't see. 'Cause see, trees don't have eyes neither. We only know where our Daddy tells us, but that's all we need. 'Cause see He loves us to much to let us see everything, but because He loves us we know even falling trees help all da other ones. Dead ones is making live ones more living. He gives us ground just like He does trees. He gives us sky just like He does trees. He made us like trees, but He loves us more than dem. Because He made us like Him. We is cracked because we grow, and strong because we cracked, and alive because we reach. And because Daddy loves us too much. We should be like trees and love like Daddy. Daddy makes us both. See?