A Banyan Tree (I wish I was)

A Banyan Tree (I wish I was)
A Poem by Roqué Marcelo

Tangled roots curling down
From the temple
Of God.

They seep into the soil
To cling to the earth.

I, in my birth, came forth
Unspoiled
Until I learned to be
What I was not.

I wish I could be those curly locks
To climb myself out of this unforgiving place

But oh, would the world

Cling to me

So
That…