<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=540867" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Self Portrait</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The willow tree stands alone.<br>It grows alone, relying only on the Sun and the Rain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This willow tree offers shade.<br>It only shades during the day, casting a monster<br>of a shadow in the mornings and evenings, <br>its size shrinking in between. Its shadow<br>is solid in some places, but has empty<br>places of sunlight dotting the ground beneath<br>it, allowing room for purity among the darkness.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This willow tree is immune to the Wind.<br>It bends whichever way it needs to survive, <br>sacrificing its tiny leaves to be carried away.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This willow tree is a home.<br>Small birds build nests on its branches, <br>laying eggs that will bring new Life to the World.<br>The nest is supported. Some things of little<br>weight can be supported, but anything that drags<br>the branches too close to the ground<br>will be dropped so the tree can be saved.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This willow tree is weak.<br>As it grows, its branches come closer and closer<br>to the ground, for it cannot support the weight<br>of itself anymore. It cannot help its own soul.<br>With one swing of an ax, the tree will be felled.<br>It will be finished, left there to be eaten<br>and burrowed in and rotted away by the Earth.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Zoe+Guillory">Zoe Guillory</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=540867" data-title="Self Portrait de Zoe Guillory" data-description="The willow tree stands alone. It grows alone, relying only on the Sun and the Rain. This willow tree offers shade. It only shades during the day, casting a monster of a shadow in the mornings and evenings, its size shrinking in between. Its shad..."></div> </div> </div>

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