Our ancestors
cultivated wisdom
with Mother Earth:
respect for her cycles
implanted at birth.

Their living style
sustained balance:
made fish-pot design
and hunter's spear blind
to those in-young.

Each planted a tree
o'er the navel string
of new baby,
tending, cherishing
to maturity.

Ancient wisdom
ensured a tree
for every soul
in indigenous
community.

So plant a tree
to remember me;
my destiny
in the future sings
of eternal springs.