Best Poems Written by Allen Daniel

Moving On From the Gardern

On a dawn of October twenty ten, 
A sap was planted in a beautiful garden 
Watered by a mentoring community 
Nurtured by fertile soils of opportunity 
Sunned by founding principles of integrity 
And pruned by the edges of creativity 
It grew and grew into a fruitful tree, 
And its branches spread to the isles of the SEA 
With the guidance from superiors it could receive 
With the commitment, the fellow trees could weave 
Rest in the hands of The Gardener, who is to believe 
 It went far beyond what it would otherwise achieve 
The perfect environment for growth it thought, 
With its dreams some fulfilled and some not 
One day ‘The Gardener’ wanted to move the tree, 
And re-plant it in a new place for it to be 
It’s painful to part with the garden and other fellow trees, 
It’s painful that the nurtured environment will cease 
But the tree has to trust the Gardener and move on 
That the new place is now the garden to grow on

Copyright © Allen Daniel | Year Posted 2016