You would have to eat a lot of oranges
before you could find
a seed that will grow
if provided with the correct nutrition
and while you are at work
the wind will blow the leaves
of your sapling in a way
as to suggest that it is the earth moving
and not just the air.
You have to be hungry for several days
before you can relish the fruit
the sweet product of an eager tree
quietly fulfilling your hunger
and if the fruit is bitter
it is not an accident on the part of the tree
but rather a way
to keep it's anger subdued
into a compact ball of hate.
You would have to search a long time
before you find
an old tree that can shade you
from the beating noonday sun
and though the tree may no longer bear fruit
you can snooze peacefully in it's shadow
for the purpose of the tree is murky
except for when
it fills your need at the moment.
