Growth Perhaps?

It's a balancing act

To retain the magic

Discovered on vacations

Opening a cautious eye

To greet the morning sun

Wondering if I've been granted another day

And fighting the gnawing feeling that 

Something...

Isn't...

Quite...

Right...

Like the charged air before a storm

I wonder what it can be

And as I pace from room to room

I see something 

That makes me smile

Meet # 19 off my birthday list 

No, he's not any 'ole lima bean

He was planted with care

Carefully watered

Carried for daily sunbathings

Brought in for the night

Loved like no other bean before him

And you think this is strange

You should see how I chatter away to my other garden experiments

The watermelon, tomato, egg plant, celery, onion, pepper, lettuce

But the ones I've grown from seed are extra special

Next to my lima bean is the spinach and green bean

I thought they wouldn't grow

But they just started peaking through

Making their cautious entrance

Once they figured out the crazy city lady meant no harm

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And I suppose I'm like the spinach and green bean
I'm still tucked away

Stuck in the moment before change

The moment of shadows

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"...Between the idea and the reality, between the motion and the act, falls the Shadow..." 
T.S. Eliot - The Hollow Men