Image by Oleg Yuzefpolsky
From the Collection “Sacred Lands”
I Stand All On My Own
By Connor Porter, aged 6, Stawley Primary School, Ashbrittle in Songs of Sacred Places (2000)
I stand all on my own
Cold in winter, hot in summer
Watching people rushing,
Building churches, fighting,
Dying in the wars
People are buried under my roots
I am old,
3,000 years old
Old, wrinkled and wise…
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