Within many branching structures
Like with trees
There is both root and canopy.
It is difficult for a root to see a canopy.
And it is difficult for a canopy to see the root.
They can only envision the other.
 

A canopy cannot be much of a canopy without a root.
A root cannot be much of a root without a canopy.
They both require the other.
 

Within many branching structures
Like with schools
There is both root and canopy.
It is difficult for the root to see a canopy.
It is difficult for the canopy to see the root.
They usually only envision the other.
 

A canopy cannot be much of a canopy without a root.
A root cannot be much of a root without a canopy.
They both require the other.
 

I would like to see teaching practitioners
In the canopies of legislative decision making,
if just for a moment in time.
 

I would like to see legislative decision makers
In the roots of the practitioning system,
if just for a moment in time.
 

In doing this, envision could become vision
We both require the other.
 
 

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