An Aging Tree

When standing still like an aging tree
stop learning and stop growing
Don't even want to gossip with the wind any more
Used to be so much into extracting, paraphrasing and passing on
back to wind as next round of rumors starts
Now just let the wind blow by
Occasionally collect a few snowflakes from the memory
melt soon after a sense of warmness arising from inside
Don't know whether in the next spring
there is any green bud sticking out
from the dry branches