Mighty Tree lyrics

Its said a tree has great strength

Alone and exposed to the elements

The seasons lining up for a turn

They bend and blow to challenge

To test its roots, its steadfastness

The reward is but survival

In a contest that always ends

With it finally succumbing so

The last chapter to the living

The challenge is the bearing it

Boughs of time branching out

Take a toll with laden limbs

And in the end 'tween it all

The pests, the lightning rare

Strike a splintering coup d'etat

So that it is harvested as lumber

The heartwood planks retain yet

The might of it still lives on

But knot unseen this ringed column

A leafy crown and medullary rays

Enrooted in the nurturing earth

Anchored in a foundation firm

Enduring the trials nature deems

The rite of passage for old wood

Marked by low limb loss, cleared

To stand alone, to stand still

Through all that life gives out

That character of the wood seen

By the visage of a single tree