Tree: 5 Minute Freewrite

it's surprising
to watch fruit grow
on a tree of your own

to water and nurture
winding branches, crumbling, brown
until the subtlest hint
of life
peeps through
fecund and green

and then
as if from nowhere
a POP
of orange
just one
then all at once

petals reaching upwards
wanting to be touched
(just as you do)
by the sun

and eventually
(just like all of us touched by the sun)
they shrivel and fall
leaving something tangible behind

in the case of the pomegranate
a waxen center bud
gives way to a scarlet orb
as it slowly swells
into ripeness
(just as you will)

for 5 Minute Freewrite and 200 Day Selfie Celebration