Thursday Brew with Gwen: UNBOWED BY ADVERSITY

Thursday Brew with Gwen

Unbowed by Adversity

Ramrod stiff, like a soldier on parade

Pride in every limb,

Unbowed by drought or flood,

Through countless years, the eucalypt grew tall.

A chaotic spread of trash

Lay about its feet

Rotting down, providing nutrient

Against the day of want.

A king amongst its kind,

An ageless living column,

A home for bird and possum

Shade and shelter for the traveller

I sat beneath this sovereign gum

Listening to its heart beat strong

I heard it sigh a message on the wind

‘Put down your tap root to the water.’

When circumstances round me 

Erupted in a flame of fire

I stood tall, unbowed

I’d tapped into the Great Creator