Planting a Tree
We neighborhood kids looking for something to do,
on a brisk autumn day, we planted a tree.
We went up in the woods and found a young maple
and dug around roots, oh so, carefully.
We got permission from our neighbor’s dad
to put it in at the foot of their yard.
We each took turns at manning the shovel,
then patting the earth, which was cold but not hard.
As the years went by, we watched that tree grow,
so beautiful with red leaves in the fall.
It wasn’t till later, we learned that the dad
did not want a new tree in his yard at all.
He didn’t think it would grow, so he had said yes.
But it did something magical all the years through,
growing tall and proud with branches outstretched.
Sometimes kids will surprise you with what they can do.
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