Unfolding Growth: The Eternal Tree of Awakening

A Poem about the Everlasting Branches of Life

Image created by the author on Jasper Art.

“Whatever grows will grow,
Whatever dies will die
Whatever works will work
Whatever flies will fly,
Whatever fails will fail|
What’s meant to soar will soar,
I am planting seeds nothing more.”
— Planting Seeds, Written and performed by Nimesh “Nimo” Patel and Daniel Nahmod

Picture a seed.

Now picture that seed
gradually growing,
eventually bursting
through the soil,

progressively
shaping a tall, elongated trunk.
Shaggy bark, strong.

Then picture that trunk,
firmly rooted
to a foundation of soil,
scaling upwards,
forming branches,
reaching for the skies.

But note these branches
are not your typically forming branches, oh no,
for these branches NEVER end.

Instead, each limb
splits off
like dendrites of the brain,
into separate trajectories,
shining infinite paths
of free-flowing possibilities and probabilities.