The Talk in the Trees

There is talk in the trees
from the birds and the bees.
Urgent whispers the breeze
in the branches and leaves.

What do they speak of?
What do they say?
‘It’s changing too fast -
week by week, day by day.’

‘Have you seen the magnolia
flowering in fall?
She’s a late winter bloomer,
it‘s not good at all!’

There is talk of the bird
that they no longer see.
It’s not hidden, or flown.
It has just ceased to be.

And, ‘where is the dry season?
Where is the rain?
This is not what we’re used to!
It isn’t the same.’

They’re wanting to tell us
to change what we do,
to find different ways,
to try something new.

It is up to us now -
stop the loss in its track.
Restore what we’ve taken,
and bring order back.

There is talk in the trees
from the birds and the bees.
Urgent whispers the breeze
in the branches and leaves.