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"Fruit of the Branch"
Fruit of the branch
is how the soil remembers
the abundance of heart—
roots drinking deep
from hidden covenant,
sap rising like prayer
through the marrow of wood.
Each season bears witness:
figs swelling in their time,
olives pressed for oil,
grapes gathered into silence
before the feast.
The ground does not forget.
It holds the imprint
of every rain,
every hand that tended,
every tear bottled
and poured back as growth.
So the harvest speaks—
not in ledgered sums,
but in sweetness,
in bread and wine,
in the quiet testimony
of branches that endured
the long night
and still bore fruit.
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