Patience

Go easy with the plans.

Grand plans can crash

through the fragile screens

of our connections, the web

with which we anchor our experience.

They can crash through

the wispy wefts of imagination,

the ones we use to build our vision

There is a place to plan big,

but then we must come quickly down,

for seedlings have different needs

from saplings, which have different

roles from trees,

and fruition requires 

many conditions

to come about

You can imagine an orchard and a harvest

in an instant

but how to make it grow

robust through all its stages,

through the years —

more than big plans,

that is what we need.

©Wendy Mulhern

August 9, 2015