The Banyan’s Adoption — Perched under the leafy refuge of the century-old banyan tree,
learning, growing, was this unknown plant,
an orphan, scrambling for support, a companion,
no one near it looked like it,
teary-eyed it kept searching for someone,
someone alike, that it could sense as a mom, as a dad, a friend,
it kept looking around, smiling, trying…