You Plant

You Plant karen

An orange seed … you trust

will grow into an orange.

You plant it… a tree grows

you are surprised!

You expected an orange

you cope and find good with the tree.

One day an orange appears

you are surprised!

You’d gotten used to settling for just a tree

but… you can allow that the tree

could out do itself and you

accept the orange,

(having forgotten it was your original intent)

The orange stays on the tree

because you have not partaken of it;

having forgotten your original desire to

taste it and it begins to rot and decay.

You are not surprised but saddened,

because you have come to believe

that life is not abundant

and your fears which you have never forgotten

have been realized and affirmed…

nothing good lasts forever.

It does not take you long to recover

and you have clearly decided that

planting orange seeds is not for you;

It is too painful.

You have participated in creation and

slept through the demonstration

by not partaking.

You are questing after Eden while you are in it.

confirming all your illusions.