You take one bite
and then another…and another.

And yet I grow
and flourish
and thrive.

Your attempts to damage me
do not succeed.

I see beauty through the holes
you work so hard to create in me…
the lifegiving trees
and the limitless sky.

Your pattern of harm
repeats…and repeats.

And yet I am strong.
I survive
and outlast
and outlive.