How Does Your Garden Grow?
Have you weeded your garden lately?
Have you looked at your own plot?
Have you seen where your roots are,
Or your mighty stems and leaves?
Have you considered that you might be part-plant?
Have you thought about what dust to dust means?
Body being proto-fertilizer is cool with me.
Have you noticed that trees have extensive root systems,
unseen underground forces of life?
Maybe you’ve concluded that we have roots, too.
Maybe our souls are the roots and like trees,
We can be cut down again and again, and still, bring
Forth green sprouts from our devastations, fires, and fuck ups
I bet you know what a weed is
I bet you can name several people
Who are weeds in your life
I know you have a shovel and a hoe
Indeed you’ve already seen its time to pull the toxicity
from its roots
And discard it.
Today, I will pull one weed in my garden.
Today, I will remove one part of the rot that doesn’t give but only takes.
Today, I will weed my garden so that I will have more room to grow.
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