BROKEN AND BRUISED by Becky Hemsley

"BROKEN AND BRUISED"
by Becky Hemsley

If a tree falls in the forest

And nobody hears it fall

They say that we could question

If it really fell at all

Yet sometimes we don’t see the sun

Or feel it on our skin

But we know that it’s still shining

And don’t question it exists

If we see a tree in winter

We could think it’s always bare

But we never doubt that one day

Brand new leaves will linger there

And when we see a fire

We don’t tell it to be cold

And it can’t stop itself burning

Just ‘cause that’s what it’s been told

Yet sometimes people tell us

Of the way we make them feel

And it niggles at our conscience

So we tell them it’s not real

“You’re just over-reacting

There’s no need to cry,” we’ll say

“You’re just so over-sensitive

It wasn’t meant that way”

But though our egos may be bruised

By all the things they’ve said

We can’t say how they’re feeling

‘Cause we’re not inside their head

See, if we’re not in the forest

Then it’s not our place to tell

The tree that’s lying broken

That it never actually fell

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Becky Hemsley 2022

Artwork created on Canva

'Broken and bruised' is from What the Wild Replied https://amzn.eu/d/4xNEFUy

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