The Upside Down Tree

        Marmara
Tree of Life People Speak

According to some old traditions,
The tree of life grows upside down
the trunk branches downwards and the roots upwards
the top reaches down in the earth,
while the roots look towards the sky
it does not offer its fruits but its origins
it does not hide under the earth what it has as deepest,
as most vulnerable
it throws it to the storms: it offers its roots, living flesh,
to the winds of the world
this is life, says the tree of life

Eduardo Galeano
Uruguay