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Rated: E · Poetry · Family · #864120

Never imagined THIS when we started out...

It’s funny
how the tree has grown
in so short a passing time.
It was so slight a thing
when planted-
quivering, yes,
with expectancy
-but nothing heralded such fruit
or hinted at this height attained
in so short a passing time.

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