and the tree was happy...

A seed was once planted,

No bigger than a bean so small,

There were no expectations for this seed at all.

Time passed.

Surrounded by love,

from a seed to roots,

nurtured by fertile soil

and warmed by the sun.

It grew.

Years had passed,

The seed had grown into a tree,

standing between many others.

He was nothing out of the ordinary,

His leafs weren't nicely formed or nicely colored.

His branches didn't reach the sky.

Nothing special was he,

but underneath the surface,

completely out of sight,

his roots ran deep.

The tree was proud of the way he was,

He often thought back of  where he came from,

and who he had become,

and after all the storms he weathered,

he was still standing strong.

He had seen many around him fall and knew,

that a tree no matter how beautiful,

 big, thick, tall,

when caught in a storm,

any tree without strong roots,

can fall.

It took a while,
but the tree grew,
bloomed
and eventually bared the most delicious fruit.


And the tree was happy...

Give them roots. Give them wings.