learning from you

three things before one dies

plant a tree
write a book
have a child

not necessarily
in that order perhaps

or make another

write about a child
in a book
and draw a tree
on its cover page

somehow
one must avoid the
chaos

or consider the
situation that you are
in

imagine, what if the
tree bears no fruit?

what if the child in the
book will have
two mothers?

what if the book
will cost
your one and only life?

ask:

have you lived
at all
before you have died?