Mia Etheridge: “A Garden Grown in Wisdom”

MIA ETHERIDGE

A Garden Grown in Wisdom

Today, tomorrow, and the day after that, a garden will grow A garden of life and death of great opportunity and of great failure A garden where you can die in the soil or sprout through the concrete

We are the Garden of Eden We live peacefully until the curious ones arrive Some want to eat the apple Some would rather not Pioneers are hungry Followers would rather starve

We all must bite the apple and learn to build something better Learn to unite and to dissolve Learn to educate and to teach Learn to love and to care To teach our children knowledge from wisdom For they will be the designers of the future and the successors of history

We all must bite the apple And learn to live with it

Learn to grow a new garden from apple seeds

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