THE MISTLETOE AND THE TREE (a parable of Life by John Eva)
The tree tells the mistletoe
To suck her sap with ease
And stop stretching his tent. The mistletoe sneers and snarls
And many more tents he pitches.
But does he know his life
On this sapling depends? Just as my Big Brother,
He does not remember the one
He robbed to this height attain! And so the