Embracing Twiggy Growth
what is this fascination
you have with twiggy growth
saplings are tender
I know ….
how they bend with the breeze
sloped-backed, slender, and swaying
an attraction to rooted wild things
has you enchanted, spellbound
you stand the stooping fool
the mighty oak
wishing himself a yearling shrub
sacrificing his grandeur
to wind-knock
with the mud-caked youth
the new
the not-yet established
have shallow roots
saplings are vulnerable
easily unearthed, often consumed
by even wilder-things
hunger is voracious
for the young
you confuse but a limb
a possibility, for the whole
and miss out on the heights
there is a view greater still
you will not see it
looking earthward
embracing twiggy growth
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