 Lightning by Viv Schwarz Each tree that falls had time to grow, for each goodbye there was hello. Some things end with a thunder clap, some things end quietly. But everything that ends began and had a time to be, a noise and silence, light and dark, to feel, to hear, to see. Each thing taller than you are, one time was just your size. Everything you know today was one day, a surprise. There was a time of holding before each letting go. For each time that we say goodbye, there is a time we say hello. From seed to fall, from small to tall, each moment there is tree. It's all there to remember, it's part of you and me.