Bent Over Sycamore

My Leaning Sycamore

 … and a woman was there who had been crippled by a spirit for eighteen years. She was bent over and could not straighten up at all. — Luke 13:11

Bent over woman

I think of you whenever I see

the bent over tree in front of me

Crowded hard by a nearby oak

towering with powerful limbs

with reach about to catch her

She leans away toward open sky

reaching for her share of sun

causing a permanent sway

each day, overpowered, she now

bows in obeisance — no longer

able to straighten her stance

to stand upright and sure

-JoMae

5/14/21

Nature Crippled Over Powered Life