Be the Tree

You plant the roots of your dreams in life’s fertile soil

Anything is possible, you shout, I can totally do this

For years, you tend to those ambitions, nurturing them along

Yet behind your optimistic façade, seeds of doubt fly in and land

These insidious weeds sprout, spread, multiply

Seeking to steal the moisture from your goals, to block out your sunshine

These doubts exist to test your resolve, to challenge your readiness

Each time you clear them away, they return, even stronger

Will you give in and allow these invasive thoughts to choke you out

Or will you look to others who have ploughed that same difficult row

Who, when life’s weeds moved in to cast their ominous shade over them

Had the nerve to hold steady and shoot their own roots even deeper

To reach that well of fortitude where their dreams first germinated

For in the end, they realized those repressing thoughts meant less

Than how they chose to cling tight and hold on, to believe they could grow

Learning from their example, you find the place where your own strength lives

And defiantly stretch your branches toward the sun

Whatever you are, keep growing and be a good one!

-Dave