A seed has fallen to the ground <br /> From an apple that sustained a hungry bite <br /> I could have cast it out of destiny to grow <br /> Instead the beauty I wanted to behold <br /> Of a seed so small and delicate as this <br /> So I found a bed of soil from which it might <br /> Stand a chance to spread its limbs in light <br /> Weeks past, and though the sun was naught <br /> The seed a mighty battle fought <br /> I thought, no chance was there for seed <br /> Or man or beast or bush <br /> After rain and hail and sleet and snow <br /> A green trace of life I did behold, <br /> It's head still bowed to the soil in thanks <br /> And I remember many seeds I cast aside <br /> They will never raise their heads in light <br /> Nor will any man know that they too had a chance <br /> After the tree and blossom and bee and me.<br /><br />Carl Reiner Schultz<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-foe-too-strong/
