A Tree So Small

Standing where once was a seed
I'm presented with a beautiful tree
Beautiful, graceful,
Tough, and Strong
with leaves green and branches long.
Breaking through to first ray's light
So young and so vulneralbe
to the harshness of nature's
natural cold frost and bitter
unfair natural selection.
How the children run
oblivious to you now
yet there your family hovers;
the ones who spewed that little seed into the ground
With aspirations that they will look at you one day
and climb high through its foilage
so as to gasp in awe
at the beautiful world that now seems
tiny as can be.
All this from the tree that stands proudly tall
with leaves green and branches long.