Deep underground, where sun doesn\u2019t go,
and people haven\u2019t been, and nothing will grow,
is the root of a money tree.
Even deeper still, the root grows thicker and darker and strong.
The tree grows past all the people who it did wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Past the hare and the turf and the gravel,
the root of the money tree begins to unravel.
It gives off shoots and blossoms despite no light,
and grows all the time, every day and every night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The people above don\u2019t hear or see
the roots of the money tree that won\u2019t set them free.
They paw at the branches and pull at the leaves
hitting and kicking and acting like thieves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Above where the sun shines and people go about their day
the tall, thick money tree continues to sway.
Back and forth and up and down, the money tree gives its shade to the ground.
That is, after all, where the first leaf was found.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The people don\u2019t see what danger they\u2019re in.
The money tree stays quiet and lets their heads spin.
\u201cHow did this tree get here?\u201d the people cry
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while the rest of the world goes awry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The money tree goes very far down.
It reaches and moves and doesn\u2019t make a sound.
No one would know the danger they face
unless they saw the origin of the money tree and that awful, terrible place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
See the money tree is old, it goes very far back.
It saw before the moon walk and Columbus and fire, it remembers when it was all black.
Then along came Good and made people, the perfect subjects for the tree\u2019s ferocious plan:
Take their good nature and watch the fall of man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cIn the beginning\u201d, a good place to start.
Adam and Eve, perfect for the part.
The money tree had no time to waste
It only took one prompting and their spotlessness was erased.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The money tree works much the same way today as it did back then.
It can play its dirty game again and again.
Grab your attention and never let it go.
Give it some time, the feeling will grow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The more you love yourself the more you\u2019ll forget
what others have done for you, how much you\u2019re in debt.
The money tree is insidious and only needs fertile ground to grow.
If you aren\u2019t careful, you\u2019ll start a garden and not even know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Say your prayers and don\u2019t let your soul out of sight
because the money tree grows without any light.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Deep underground, where sun doesn\u2019t go,and people haven\u2019t been, and nothing will grow,is the root of a money tree.Even deeper still, the root grows thicker and darker and strong.The tree grows past all the people who it did wrong. Past the hare and the turf and the gravel,the root of the money tree begins to … Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pa867U-MV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3033"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3033\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3034,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3033\/revisions\/3034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/underwoodpress.com\/ruescribe\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Maggie Harbrecht is, among many things, a student and a novice writer. She lives on a hill in Pittsburgh (as most Pittsburghers do) and finds inspiration in religion, medicine, and the kingdom Animalia.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"