Holding On While Letting Go

Sapling

Sapling

Planted as a young child

I grew from a seed

Planted into the Earth

To change

Develop

To grow...

It has only been years

It feel like eternity

That I've been sitting here

Watching the world pass me by

Feeling the rain and the wind against my skin

Waiting for the life I know...

My phloem and xylem

Are working like crazy

Frantically rushing along inside of me

Nurturing me

Building me up

Making me stronger...

Even at something like twenty years

I'm still a child

Small and immature

Still young

Still changing

I wait even longer...

Time passes

So do people

But I'm still here

Anticipating

I know I'm growing

But it's taking so long...

My arms are outstretched

Never tiring

My feet firmly in the ground

Never moving

I am open and I listen

For the bluebird's song...

Eventually, I become

What I was meant to be

Strong and sturdy

That's what humans needed

So I was chopped down

I feel like my life's been a joke...

Live and die, that's what we all do

I lived to be chopped down

After all that time, only to be reduced to a stump

It's like they don't realize that I was even alive

But I will accept the truth--I'm dead.

Even from acorns can grow a mighty oak...

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I lie on the ground

Waiting for more

They saw me to pieces

And I'll be ignored...

~SAVE THE TREES~