The seeds you plant they tend to grow
whether haphazard or in rows
not caring where they've been thrown
by hand or where the wind has blown
shooting up their tiny leaves
like hands reaching up to touch the air
arriving clean, simple and bare
but--it's not as if they dared
or--as if they arrived scared
it's just what they do!
The lesson that they give is this,
so I will make sure it is not missed,
we can't control how tall it rises
how many branches or leaves abound
if the trunk is rough or round
the only control we have, you see
is where exactly
it hits
the ground