The best time to plant the seed
was twenty years ago, they say—
the second-best time is right now,
this specific, unrepeatable today.

Do not grieve the planting you delayed,
grieve nothing that cannot be changed—
plant the seed into the dark soil
and let the growth be rearranged

by patience and by water and by time,
the three things seeds have always known—
and one day you will look back at this dark moment
as the moment you were sown.
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