Vines Climb and Entwine

Vines climb
and entwine around vines
some with thorns,
some with tendrils.

On the vines with thorns,
small white flowers
fruit into
luscious berries,
collectively with
thousands upon thousands of seeds

While on the vines with tendrils,
Beautiful, violet-blue
trumpet shaped blossoms
bloom with all the morning’s glory.

These are both the kind of vines
that could choke out other plants.
When the plants were brought here
from foreign lands,
and planted in the ground,
the roots and seeds took off,
and they became invasive.

Roots growing deep through earth,
The thorny berry vines
grow into a thick hedge,
Its seed falling each season,
with the berries,
staking a claim to this land.

These vines could each choose
to destroy one another,
in a war for territory,
But they are more content
living at peace with one another,
and climbing all over native plants,
easier prey,  
Choking them out, and taking their space.

So these vines ally together,
And the vines with tendrils
attach themselves to the thorny hedge,
climbing through it, using it for support.
The thorny vines provide natural protection
from being picked apart.

Whenever the vines touch ground,
they root again,
so, in seeding themselves,
and in weaving themselves into the earth
and through each other,
they take over this land,
stamping the natives out,
out of existence,
but to carve out their space
to call their own.
This is the manifestdestiny
of the vines.

They support each other,
so they can enjoy more space.
Taking over the land, they spread,
gobbling up more and more space.
Small life and pests take up refuge
inside this briar patch hedge.
More than invasive,
these vines have become an infestation.

Ripping them out does no good,
Even if you bleed for the effort.
It does no good because
the roots run deep.
And once they rise up,
The seed is destined to fall.
They own this land now.

Vines climb
and entwine around vines
some with thorns,
some with tendrils.