A Tree That Grew

A Tree That Grew

Today a seed is planted.
It sprouts a tree
with such a beautiful trunk to show
and soon with leaves even more so.
You may think this tree is free,
but it has no place to go.
Its beauty is reflected in a pond,
but still it has no eyes for itself to see.
Does it smell the summer breeze?
Can it feel at all,
emotional happiness or pain?
Does it feel the rain as it begins to fall?
It has no hands and nothing for it to touch.
Can it hear sound,
those who talk as they pass by?
To us, it can't seem to do very much.
But it provides air for us to breathe,
and it provides shade.
There are others like it around.
It grows high and sometimes wide,
but then one day it gets cut down.
Never did it get the chance to reach the sky.
There was so much about it nobody knew.
A mystery, it was.
With only water and soil,
still it thrived.
Still it grew.

-Sedic J. Huxwell-