The Second Life of Trees

If you take away
fear
there is only
orange light,
magnetic and warm
a second life
cloaking the trees
we know as home.
the softness of its quiet
holds me still.
my heart grows against
its edges
spacious, glowing.
this beauty knows
no escape from
the physical.
when such joy
cannot move
my eyes
water
such beauty, breaking me
open
from the inside.