Did You Grow Together?

Poetry that sprang up out of the soil

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Did you grow together?
Two plants reaching up,
endless blue of an everyday sky

Did anyone notice?
That you were entwined, combined, by a mutual need
that pulled you free of the soil

to reach the heights you never could,
if ever you could…

Did it make a difference, in the end?
When you were cut down, harsh and drawn;
could either of you breathe?

Did you reach out a hand, a leaf, too brief
to that endless, mocking, beautiful, sky
— a sky too far for you to reach,
but which you had to try, had to stretch to, had to —

Did you go together?
Or were you left alone?

Prompt from the benevolent Bella Smith ⭐:

Concept — Growth
Twosome — Mundane and Mystical

Prompt Yourself: Weekly Prompts July 10–16

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