If ideas are accepted, tried, and respected,
new ones will follow, take form, and will grow.
But, if thoughts are rejected, disdained, or infected,
ideas will not come, you'll have nothing to show.
All things in this life must be given a chance,
if always ignored things will never advance.

You too did not start at the top of the pile,
others came first and they planted the seed.
They cared for it, tended it, helped it to grow,
and look what they accomplished, what they have to show.
They have since gone, moved on, and retired,
and entrustd their flower to you for a while.

Will you feed it and tend it, give it the care it deserves,
let others share sunshine to help it to grow?
Will you take it and hide it, keep it just for yourself,
or will you share it with others, see the things they can do?
For if many will tend it, soon a garden may grow.

DLS - Copyright 1999