watermelon makes your elbows sticky, if you eat it right

if i could take all the things 

i've seen and heard and said, and all the things

i've ever learned, and all the things

i've ever known 

and wrap them up in a neat little box, 

i'd wrap that box in the prettiest paper i could find,

and i'd tie the best bow i knew how.

i'd send that little box of life to the acorn 

with a note that said:

do not open until you are a tree.

and that's the twist part. 

because by the time the acorn becomes a tree

she will have already acquired all the things in the box. 

so instead of opening the box 

the tree will just laugh

and make some breakfast 

and keep tying the bow on the box for the acorn.

she is forever tying bows.

and smiling all the while.