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Autumn Contest Poem


Shana Okayama

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A seed lands in a pile of stray soil 

 

A pile secluded from the test

 

The air is just right to germinate

 

The dirt is just right to root 

 

But most importantly, the seed was ready to finally give 

 

Into the scary dilemma of life 

 

The seeds life continues on 

 

Leaves form 

 

Branches swarm 

 

And the trunk is soon whole 

 

The plant is a full fledged biological fractal 

 

Even bearing fruit 

 

But the soil couldn’t grow like the tree

 

Still secluded, still stranded 

 

This mant the floras end was fate, quicker than it 

 

Should have been 

 

But the soils rich nutrients was just right for the venture 

 

And the seed brough soul to the soil 

 

But in the end the plant dies, and the dirt blows away 

 

In force majeure

 

Tragic, as life is in the end

 

But some say the seed still remembers the soil 

 

Its dead roots still in the soils gravely body

 

And the plant remembers the dirt, as its body is made of its substance 

 

Connected by spirit 

 

Connected by time 

 

Separated by god’s will

 

Shana Okayama