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Tuesday, June 22, 2010

Growth of Genius, Gain from Pain

Intelligence is like a tree
reaching for that bright mystery
which overhead it often hangs
and causes plant life such great pangs
that it will use its every inch
to this life source itself will winch
but if a shadow pales one side
and darkness one place always hides
the plant, instead of balanced growth
will furl itself (with greenish oath)
and reach, unbalanced, to the light,
and strain with such one-sided might,
that neighbor plants (though of same make)
will marvel at its upward take
and though behind their palmy fronds
they whisper that it "don't belong"
and oft predict such horrid ends
because their neighbor sideways bends
but it is not the first ones fault
and thus a genius skyward vaults.
Well rounded plants in decades hence
will marvel at the competence
of single minded genius greens
and of its progress they will glean,
while eying that poor sideways plant
that in their neighborhood grows slant.

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