Plant a tree. a poem by Geraldine Sinyuy

Plant a tree

Walk today with those who will walk with you,
Should they leave you half the way, 
Plant a tree for them and mark the day,
So that if ever the road leads them back to  you again, you'll have at least a shelter to offer if not a fruit.
Walk on and as many as part ways with you
Keep planting trees
So that every embarrassment becomes a tree
A tree to give fresh air not for you alone but for humanity,
If you have no space for trees,
Plant a flower in a pot
It's still a beautiful thing
Today I teach you, each time you get tempted 
Just plant something
That's the new way of healing.
Healing for the self and for the planet
If the wound does not heal,
The tree will heal the earth.

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Dr Sinyuy Geraldine is a budding creative writer resident in the North West Region of Cameroon. Sinyuy trained as an English Language and Literature in English Teacher in the University of Yaoundé I in Cameroon. She earned her PhD in Commonwealth Literature from the same university in 2018. Dr Sinyuy started writing poems in her teens and most of her poems and folktales were read and discussed on the North West Provincial Station of the Cameroon Radio Television (CRTV) Bamenda where she was often a guest writer for the programme: Literary Workshop: A Programme for Creative Writing and Literary Criticism.  She is a critical book review editor at WordCity Literary Journal. She is also does copy editing and proofreading under the cover of the comply she founded in 2022, ‘The Rising Sun Editing Company Ltd’. 

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