True Nature Heals
The Healing Tree
By Indira Naidoo
I watched youLost in griefHead of stone and cloud,Steps falteringI watched and achedLong before you ever noticed meI craved to cradle youSafe in my limbsTo draw you into meLet my sap mingle with your tearsWith the patience of a loverI waitedUntil one dayYou limped into my shadeParched, inconsolable, a broken shellI showed you how sadness could hold you togetherIt didn’t have to be your undoingI can’t fix what has been shattered in youBut I can hold you stillIn this noisy world.
Indira Naidoo is one of Australia’s most popular broadcasters. During her 30-year award-winning journalistic career, Ms Naidoo has hosted and reported for some of the country’s most distinguished news and current affair programs. Her first book, the best-selling The Edible Balcony, published in 2011, about growing food in small spaces, has been launched in London, Hong Kong and New York and her second book, The Edible City - about community gardening - was published in 2015. Her latest best-selling book is The Space Between The Stars about the healing powers of nature. She currently hosts ABC Radio Evenings which airs nationally to an average nightly audience of 1 million listeners.