Sometimes
when you repot a plant,
no matter how healthy the new location
it curls up into itself and dies.
Even though there's
just as much water and
just as much sunlight
hell, maybe even more
the plant can't grow anymore.
It's shocked,
it's stressed,
it's already weak.
A move can do a plant good,
but sometimes it's too much, too fast.
Except
Sometimes
when you repot a plant
it does just fine.
It hardly takes notice,
or maybe it thrives
even more.
The plant grows taller
looks brighter
smells sweeter
stretches its roots deep into the soil
and leans into the warm sun on its leaves.
being
somewhere else
is not the same
as being nowhere
at all
just like
being
loved differently
is not the same
as being loved
less
Apr 16, 2013
Apr 16, 2013 at 10:48 PM UTC
Sometimes
when you repot a plant,
no matter how healthy the new location
it curls up into itself and dies.
Even though there's
just as much water and
just as much sunlight
hell, maybe even more
the plant can't grow anymore.
It's shocked,
it's stressed,
it's already weak.
A move can do a plant good,
but sometimes it's too much, too fast.
Except
Sometimes
when you repot a plant
it does just fine.
It hardly takes notice,
or maybe it thrives
even more.
The plant grows taller
looks brighter
smells sweeter
stretches its roots deep into the soil
and leans into the warm sun on its leaves.
being
somewhere else
is not the same
as being nowhere
at all
just like
being
loved differently
is not the same
as being loved
less
