One Little Seed

Just a tiny seed
meaning vertually nothing
so small and innocent
incapable of anything.
But it grows and grows
slowly but steadily
before breaking through the ground
the tiniest of sprouts.
Water and sunshine,
caring and love,
raising this seed up
now becoming a plant.
Seconds, minutes,
hours, days,
months, years,
pass as it grows.
The planter is old
and has forgotten about this plant
that is now a tree
that neighborhood kids play in.
Climbing higher and higher
jumping to the ground
swinging form branches
wrinkled with memories.
So many memories
from so many people
so many childhoods
lived and remembered.
Stories told
to the people to come
all beginning
from one little seed.