I am a bad seed,
For I come from bad apples,
And someday I will grow to be,
In turn, a bad apple tree.
And from that tree,
Bad apples will grow.
And one day that child of mine will ask,
“Mother, like you,
Am I a bad apple too?”
C.G. Nelson has been an avid reader of poetry since she was thirteen years old. Her first loves were Emily Dickinson and Edgar Allan Poe. C.G. Nelson is a new poet. She went to the University of Washington, where she graduated with a degree in English and Philosophy.