Forest of Dreams - a poem

Tread gently on the carpet of life
Take a moment to watch
To breathe
To take a moment away
Look down around your feet
There - is a single seedling
Minute and fragile
Vulnerable - yet reaching forever upwards
Looking for a single beam of sunlight
It will grow - strengthen - and rise
In years to come - it will join the forest giants
In the forest of dreams

Life is much like that
We start off so small and we grow
As we grow we face adversity
Adversity leaves us scarred, sometimes angry
It makes us who we are and a little wiser for the experience
For all those challenges, battles fought - some lost and some won
Look up anyway - dare to do it
Your sunlight is hope and determination
One day you’ll stand too as a giant
You’ll be yourself
In your own forest of dreams.

Copyright 2019 ~ Liz Clark (31.08.2019)