Rethinking Lifestyle

An acorn when it’s born
Wants to be an oaken tree
Though oft this drive is met with scorn
And is not always meant to be

Failing to become a tree
Is not the end it seems to be
The dormant acorn can become
A delicious morsel for someone

And failing even that
An acorn can decay
To provide a bounteous buffet
To organisms living in the clay

And so you see
That in all three
Of the options life provides to thee
None are without validity

Now if some acorns yield some trees
The worth can humbly be conveyed
In numerous abilities
One of these to provide a shade

Not only shade but the habitat it brings
For birds and other living things
To cycle nutrients from the deep
And produce acorns and leaves to eat

An oaken tree can live a hundred years
And then extend its life a hundred more
By being cut down and sold in a store
As houses, furniture or a door

An acorn is an analogy
Of great human propensity
If then so much from one so small
What of the potential for us all