Downsprout

Whensoever you plant a spiritual seed, you sow from eternity – on heavenly soil. From there, it sprouts and grows downward – to earth. We often think of our sowing as earthen, and sprouting as spirit-bound. We often believe in rooting ourselves in time and sending our shoots heavenward, shuttling our fruits as rockets searching for God’s catch. Rather, from earth we plant in heaven, where seed belongs, and again shoot towards earth, where fruit has purpose – to nourish our being as we earth-walk a life journey, and to sate the world temporally till time itself expires. For indeed, we are seeds of eternal soil, planted here through womb and sprout by labour, leaning birthward on quest to return to heaven. Our seeds are not of this soil, yet our fruit must nourish it. To this, our harvest is well that of scouring fruit from bellies of branches inverted like brollies, where stalk pierces cloud for anchorage of roots not time-bound. When you go home, you go home to your seeds, and to find them at altitudes beyond...way beyond...a six-foot journey