Germ

Germ By Jeremy Schumock Jerm is my name I used to think that was lame After all, isn't a germ just a disease? I hated that name I felt like a pickle stuck between a rock and a hard place: Relish. After thinking I was contagious or underdeveloped, I learned a germ is actually just "The source from which something develops." A germ is not a disease I, Jerm, have no one but me to appease Jerm is a seed planted in the soil Watered with curiosity and countless years of animosity Fertilized with the gift to empathize and compromise And love as its source of vitamin D Jerm is a seed that will not spoil What was once just considered bacteria Will soon (germ)inate, And see that it was worth the wait Like a flower knowing spring is coming soon Like May slowly fading into June And like anything else destined to bloom, G[J]erms too are entitled to change, And will inevitably grow into something of beauty and purpose.