7th May - todays post. #noticethistree Our petition has now reached over 2,700 signatures. Please keep promoting it. It will make a difference as we believe @hackneycouncil will notice. Today we would like to highlight a poem written about the #happymantree. The writer wrote this after spending some time looking up at the tree recently. She was on her own. She was there early this morning, again on her own. She wants to remain anonymous. Here is her poem she sent in.
Are you here for this tree?
When people are dying,
I’m here because we are dying
For better homes the van read
Weedfree the van read
Because I felt weird
Uncomfortable
We have homes
Trees were probably cut down for them
I justify myself, I work for the nhs don’t you know
Am I at risk?
Of course
We all are
I have a story still that I should not have problems to be a therapist
What ever could that look like
I am simply part of a system
At the moment, this part
I stand here to feel the fear
30 minutes it’s not long, it’s very short in fact
They are probably better homes for now for some
If they cut down a tree it’s for a reason
I’m sure and a good one in many eyes
But the extent and breadth of the tree cutting is not in our favour
Someone years ago maybe planted this tree
It made a home here
Now someone else decided its home is in the wrong place so it must be removed.
Can you visit a tree?
Take Me
Spending time with trees to be cut
Like we spend time with a loved one who is dying
Only this tree isn’t dying
It is on death row
For a crime it did not commit
There is an idea
That we are more important than trees
That we need the priority
No trees
No Us
No Us
We will be there again tomorrow and I have attached todays pictures of the tree. www.change.org/savethehappymantree
