Green and growing fresh and new <br />Innocent and sunlit <br />Fearing not the blade you've never known <br />Ignorant of the cleaving coming to consume <br />It will cut and carry your fruit away <br />To bidders with hungry mouths to chew <br />You <br />And leave nothing but a sheath stretching <br />Half as high as your hopes did hold you <br />A clean cut atop a dried stalk <br />And left to be plowed again into Earth <br />For the next again like the one before <br />Green and growing fresh and new<br /><br />Will Stanton<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-harvest-unknown/
