The banyan found another way to birth
By dropping roots from branches back to Earth
And each regeneration of it stands
The stronger for its reconciling strands.

Throughout Karnataka it seems to be
Enthralled by all we call a banyan tree;
At home in reaching backwards to embrace
A life it knows it chose in time and place.

And more than any other tree it grows
As if it needed people, cows and crows
And maybe that is how the ancient mind
Felt holiness and let it heal and bind;
And maybe one day people here on Earth
Will see the need to have a banyan birth.