The Half-Way Tree
Some folks say, ‘here’, while others ‘there’,
‘This tree’ or ‘that’ marks half-way care.
What does it matter? – round about,
We're half-way home, without a doubt.Sixty, the Scripture says to us,
Is half our time on earth because
When we lived longer we got good
That being jerks – God understood!He cut us back, said, “ ’nuff's enough –
That's lots of time to wreck things up”.
It's now so bad, I haste to say,
Thirty years less most end their days.We've trashed this planet; wrecked the air;
Can't drink the water anywhere;
Resource depletion's rampant now;
Soon largest beast will be the cow.So halfway home – how can it be
Soon end of planet's history?
Our stewardship soon comes to end –
How far to us can nature bend?What if we chose a half-way tree,
Said “this next half is up to me –
This tree for me marks halfway care –
Fill in last-half with cleaner air?”Half-life 's a shifting concept, see?
Time to lose half a potency.
Let's count the end from this day's tree,
Half-life extend far as can be.Someday, years hence, a child may ask,
“Whence came this forest in our past?”
Story they'll tell as trees they tend –
With new trees we half-life extend.navigation