The oak limb in the yard, bending,
Close to breaking,
Required careful tending.
Upon my waking,
The tree was on the ground.
I hadn’t felt the earth shaking
Or heard its falling sound.
In a few days it was gone,
Its thick stump ground.
I planted another one,
A sapling depending
On me like father to son . . .
Already ascending.
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