It's like the dead meets the living. One looks on in envy as it recalls its past life, standing tall and proud in full blossom ,swinging in the wind while supporting many forms of life. The other looks in wonder at what it could become; stripped of sap, dried and sanded and carted off to the mill. That's of course, assuming that the builder is using treated wood, but of course there’s nothing to stop the builder from using branches of other trees as beams. They might have been related at some point, or it might even be true butchery. If the same tree’s used. But there comes a time where a metal spike must come out of one and into the other, unless the builder is very skilled and compresses them very tightly together. But however they are bound, will they get on? Will the living attempt to absorb the dead? Will it reject it, overpower it, grow through it and loosen it, or grow around it? Or will it bear it tightly together to hold this new structure?
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