Tree Trail
A small seed lies on the ground beneath the canopy of its own. Its destination, unknown yet important so it waits for the wind to carry it and many others to their beginning and final destination. A gust with great strength and great duration arrives and lifts the seed to the sky, flying to a place to call home.
Beneath the ground the seed finally arrived, emerging as a sprout with it, a faint and distant dream to become a mighty tree to create a new canopy. It waits and absorbs all the water and light it needs, becoming a stronger and healthier version of itself.
With the passing of time the sprout that once towered over none has begun to reach heights unknown to it, taking one more step into becoming a tree. The sprout, now a sapling, showing promise and hope becoming a bigger size to stabilize the ground around it. The sapling has now become a small link in a greater chain of keeping everything together.
Finally, with many rings of experience, it towers over all but its fellow trees. Viewing the sky from top of the world, creating a canopy with many others and changing colors when the time comes. With the new found height it begins to cover the safety and dreams of many creatures that arrived under it. The day arrives that it creates the seeds that once started the adventure, each one made to create a new canopy and a greater chain.
With greed and necessity comes a massacre and with it goes a dream. The mighty trees no more, along with the calming canopy and the wooden chain. The ground, unstable and uncertain, begins to shift and erode, and the forest of many creatures leave for a new home. A few seeds remain within ground, unknowing of the clearing of the canopy, that lie dreaming to create a new canopy.
