“Tree of Shame” by Artist Lisa Ballard

Little tree of suffering, growing in shame with weak & crooked hands I hope this branch will hold, please, hold me I pray to feel sun on my transparent body Those alive before me unloved shapes lie beneath fallen leaves buried little souls fill the earth with our broken bones I am frightened but no one comes so I hide, in a fruitless tree with my face to the sky and wait for the wind to dry my eyes.... Artist Lisa Ballard of Pennsylvania