the way to the forest

I shall go to the forest

and look up to the sky

like the tree 

i will learn to look up

i will learn to reach deep 

below where there's water

to fill my thirst.

I shall go to the forest 

and listen to the birds sing

i will learn to listen to the music they make

i will learn to understand what they say.

the birds will fly high above

and i will sit very still 

and watch them go by.

I shall go the forest

and touch the velvet green of the leaves

feel the air touch my skin like it caresses the wood

i shall learn to be soft like the leaves

i shall learn to be hard like the trees.

I will dig a small cave below the roots of one tree

and i will hide there a while 

and sleep and dream  dreams

so sweet

and the only one that  shall find me

will be whoever had  learned

the way to the forest

the ways of the trees 

and the places

where i hide

from the light.