bare in the beginning small as any seed
of recognition, more so those
who sprout in the vastness of forests surrounded
tall and taller yet
might one be
that
one who gains stature among the redwoods
or the king of younger shoots presence
small , dreams more grand , and
at once magnificence unbounded
by precedence or tradition or genetics
his seed her renown the germination
of a new day a new dawn a new
perception, a new generation
more tall in ways
the tallest the strongest the
warriors bow, the most beautiful curtsy,
in the wake.