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Seed www.positivespin.com.au © 2003 Today you will be a part of a story that happens over a long time. Many years will pass in the next few minutes.. In a rainforest a seed falls from an ancient giant tree. You are that seed. You are the seed. You bounce on the leaves of the forest floor. Smell the earth. Working your way under the soft soil. You wait in the dark, moist soil. Not really alive. Not really dead. It rains. You swell. Your hard shell cracks. A tiny white root grows down into the dark moisture. A shoot peeps out, searching upwards for warmth and light. The shoot becomes two tiny leaves. Over months you grow into a spindly bush in the half-light of the rainforest. You are surrounded by giants. Trees with huge roots to keep them strong and upright. But without sunlight you are a dwarf in a forest of giants. Be patient. Many years pass. One night there is a terrible storm. It is calm on the forest floor for a dwarf bush. But up in the canopy, the roof of the rainforest, the violent wind pushes around the tops of the giants as if they are stalks of grass. And one giant near you is not strong enough and comes crashing down to the ground with a shudder. Next morning the storm has passed. The giant which stood beside you lies there, dead.. There is a brightness you've never seen before. Sunlight streams down through the gap left by the giant. Feel the warm sun on your leaves.. Over the next months you grow as you've never grown before. Towards the light. Towards the warmth. Growing hundreds more leaves. Your trunk grows fat. Over years you become a forest giant. Your roots grow deep into the earth, seeking moisture and sending it up to your leaves, the leaves which catch energy from the sun and send it down to your roots. You live for hundreds of years. You watch and listen to the birds and the animals. Sometimes your leaves whisper to each other. Feel the seasons come and go. You are ancient. Wise.. One day a seed falls in the forest... composition music: robert jarvis text: rob walker performers synthesiser: robert jarvis vocals: kerry burke, rob walker. production robert jarvis post-production simon rose From the album Take5 by positivespin. Permission is granted to educators to reproduce this page. |