Tending the Soil
You’d sure enough take pleasure biting
into a big ripe squirt-in-your-face juicy saturated-red tomato right away,
right? It doesn’t work that way. You must plant the seed in the right
fertilized soil. Gently nurture it with the right amount of sun at the correct
temperature. Not too much water. You might even have to plant more than
one. The ones that do emerge start out green. But they don’t all work out. Don’t
count your nightshades before they hatch. Some tomatoes screw up along the way,
it’s not always a straight vine to the top.
This is for the overeager mentors,
the impatient mothers, the pushy co-dependent friends. Those whose care, who
know the way that they can see but you can’t. You must stick to your guns,
what’s right for you it ain’t right for everyone. The farmer has the right advice,
but tomatoes are sometimes hard of hearing.
People have to find the way that
works for them. Twists and turns in the soil that we must tangle through on our
own. You can’t grow for us; we must develop ourselves.
I hope you can wait. If not, I get
it. You have to eat. If your green tomatoes won’t ripen quick enough, you move
on to red bell peppers.
That turned out well!
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