Growth 

One day the people you chose before yourself 

Stayed up to water

Rolled up sleeves

Pricked, pruned, polished

Broke backs, lost sleep, lost peace 

Sang to, danced for 

Wrote to. Heard. 

May look at you in disgust 

Through twisted lips demand

“Why haven’t you grown?”

“I was watering you. 

There wasn’t enough time for the both of us”

- Scoffs -

They will step over you 

Cut you down like weeds.