Trees: cypress

Written with love, using traditional pen and ink, this beautiful poem about the cypress is inspired by Rumi : When your sorrow rises in my heart, O graceful cypress, My body, like the cypress, rises—soul and heart torn apart.

I suppose I stand before you, yet in your presence, I’m lost— For when the truth reveals its face, all illusions depart.

Pass once through this worldly garden, O envy of spring— So that the autumn may rise from the blooming rose’s heart.