Bottle Shape Tree Crumbles With Humility

 A bottle shape tree known as Namibia proudly arches among the rocks in the middle of a desert in South Africa. The whisper of milk sap is streaming. Beautiful flowers pink and white adorn its crown.Show stopper deer red centers only a hint of what is to come. This mountainous region rocky and rough applauds.
  Bushmen collect poisonous sap for their arrows. The dark red centers of the flowers shiver at the thought of death approaching.
  Bushmen voices resonate a keyboard of musical notes.Each symbol penetrate the bark with a click click sound.The oldest people on earth, along with the young, whisper or shout different ranges of click sounds. Bass, Treble, alto, Tenor all are present and accounted for. Absolutely no dust only clean air penetrates their nostrils.
     Centuries now bush women go behind this tree to squeeze out their babies. Their soft footprints are wiped out in the sand with a gentle breeze. Today a couple privately kneel before the tree softly pledging their vows. The tree bears witness.
  Suddenly out of no where a carefully aimed arrow penetrates the back of the bridegroom. Blood curling screams. Loud thumps as he crashes the ground. The bride screams silently gagging almost voiceless, clutching her heart. The tree crumbles in humility as it witnesses the shames of a death. This tree is now marked a place of death. No one will return. No more babies entering the earth behind its trunk. No more lovers quietly pledging their love. The flowers will continue to bloom,the sap will continue run and only the tree itself will know its beauty. Loneliness will reinvent itself in the most deadly tree on earth.
  Tribes might pass by and maybe toss a stone in memory of the young couple who stood to pledge their vows to each other. When death creeps it ugly head it makes no difference whether in a camp ground or by a tree, life will not penetrate there again.
  Members reverently walk by and toss  pebbles. It is a way of saying good luck to the bridegroom's spirit who has walked away in the dawn of time.