just like that
tree could it be
we too shed and renew
dropping cells like leaves
going dormant to refresh layers costuming bowing of boughs
emerge with stronger unfurling in the new season
having learned from the parasites that fed in the former years
adapting toxins natural repellents emiting from our skin the very thing needed
to put off the naysayers the trunkulent gaslighters the weight of hangers on that would have before eaten us alive
we are closer to nature than egos would have us believe
the earth goes round the sun after all