Look at you now.
You’re really turning into something,
aren’t you?
Beautiful in places
where we scarred you.
Blooming flowers
that color your hard truth,
and fruit
where we told you not to.
When you were small,
we thought that we
would cut you down,
cull you out.
We thought nature
wouldn’t let you sprout.
Look at you now.
Turns out you put down some roots
somehow.
Through this hard packed dirt
and shitty soil.
You grew out of conditions
that were no good for you,
and you chased the Sun,
that much is obvious.
To be honest,
we thought you might have been
a bad seed.
Thought you might not even
germinate to be.
Dropped you in the ground
accidentally,
and wow.
Look at you now.
Had to cut away
some old growth
and a few dead limbs,
but that only made
those that remain
grow strong again.
Coming into your season,
I can feel you breathing,
cleaning the air around you,
and nurturing the ground.
We were so wrong
to think that you weren’t
what we need.
Watched you grow
from a bad seed
into a beautiful tree.
DJR – 2023
