Do You See

Some time ago, there was a storm. It caused things to move and shake. Like this tree. Do you see the leaning trunk, and its wiry branches growing not towards the sun, but to earth, like it's attempting a double root, a precaution, maybe? Do you see where the path ends, and how that twig sits there as if to barricade you from the beyond? Do you see that there is nothing else but green around you? Do you see the quietness that abounds?