Someone posted a picture

The Lahaina Banyon Tree

A block-sized wonder

Over a hundred years old

Thought to be lost.

In the deadly fire.

It’s branches black.

Its trunk dark and lifeless.

As the endless stream.

of sad stories and

deep loss

bombarded us every day,

some experts decided to try to save it.

They watered it, fed it

Babied it, cherished it

Three weeks later,

signs of life surge through the trunk

New saplings grow from old, lifeless branches

Hope is a tree

In the center of Lahaina Town

Doing it’s damnedest

to bring hope

to a town broken in pain and loss.

Hope in the form of a tree.