The old broken limb up high in the oak, <br />listened as leaf's whispered and spoke. <br />Pointing their branches and poking fun, <br />at the broken limb and the years it has hung. <br />But the broken limb wasn't broken at all, <br />it only seemed this way from summer to fall. <br />No leaves of green that shine in the sun, <br />or blazing fall colors after summer is done. <br />When winter comes they all look the same, <br />except for the broken limb that still barely hangs. <br />You wouldn't even noticed until you looked close, <br />that one limb was misplaced and not like most. <br />No leaf's could laugh from the branches that sway, <br />for they all look the same on this winters day. <br />I have watched this broken limb for years, <br />waiting for it to fall and hear the other leaf's cheer. <br />An unsightly feature they all seemed to agree, <br />that this broken limb was not ment for a tree. <br />When spring finally came to awaken the land, <br />all the branches began budding a sight so grand. <br />The leaf's were coming the broken limb did know, <br />another season of laughing as the leaf's will grow. <br />But something amazing caught my eye's, <br />a beautiful sight were the broken limb try's. <br />A new limb was growing from the tatered break, <br /> were the old limb had snapped years to the date. <br />Slowly it grew and grew some more, <br />one leaf, two leaf's, three and then four. <br />Once just a chaffed and broken old limb, <br />now showing new life as summer begins. <br />The old broken limb finally fell to the ground, <br />as the new lush growth hushed all of the sounds. <br />The sounds of laughter and whispers aside, <br />a new limb is born were the other had cried. <br />Still the same limb as once before, <br />from the same stock, from the same core. <br />And so the new limb took awhile to grow, <br />it something to marvel and something to show. <br />It became the biggest limb of them all, <br />and was just like the others from spring until fall.<br /><br />Gulliver Gimble<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-old-broken-limb/
