Tender Green

New growth
Coming too quickly
From long timid
Dormancy

Energy released
Long held within
Bursts forth with
Abandon

Exposing frailty
Reaching for light
From false sun
Radiating

Too soon
Such rampant growth
Leaves inner core
Depleted

True strength
Builds slowly upon
Layers of earned
Stability

When storms
They do come
The misdirected limb
Assaulted

Rough tempest
Will be pitiless
The stretched green
Broken


Ken Goree