Scott Simpson · Poetry

The Garden Remakes Itself

Relational Landscaping: The Human Terrain of Organizations · source pages 84

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Not all beginnings are loud.

Some come in the hush

between decisions—

a slow recognition

that what we’ve built

no longer fits the shape

we are becoming.

So the trellis comes down.

A new path is cleared.

What once grew tall

makes room

for something low and blooming.

And the garden remakes itself

not by force,

but by a listening hand,

a season of rest,

and the promise

of roots

reaching

again.