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Strength and Beauty
Tree as promise you cannot keep alone.
The tree is not sacred because I said so. It is tall because time allowed, roots busy in dark, branches hosting creatures who do not know your name.
Strength is shelter offered without contract. Beauty is green doing its job.
Thirteen hears the promise adults make — protect the forest — and knows it is homework for a lifetime, not a poster.
The timber still whispers after you pass.
JV · Dark Heart Labs