The Seed, Part 1
When my kids ask about death — and Ben and Addie did, yesterday morning...about the afterlife, too, and heaven...I simply say: "I don't know."
Yesterday, I said, "I think something unexpected is going to happen, but it's hard for me to imagine. If you were a seed, do you think you would believe that could become a tree?"
We have joked about this before. I even wrote a poem/story about it, that I made up for the kids one day.
The Seed
I had a little chat
With my friend, the seed
And I tried to tell her
That one day she’d be a
zucchini plant.
And you know what she said?
“I don’t think that’s true.
I think I’ll be dead.”
“No, no,” I said.
“Here’s how it works.”
And then I explained
That if she goes in the dirt
And gets all covered up
And then watered with rain
She’s sprout right back up
As a new kind of thang.
“Ha! “ said the seed.
Oh boy, did she laugh.
“That won’t ever happen.
It will not. It can’t!!
If I go underground
And get covered in dirt,
Only one thing can happen.
It’s this: I’d get hurt.
A tiny old seed
L…
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