Contained within the coconut
Is universal truth:
It's hard, but when you open it
It's filled with tasty juice -
Inside the pomegranate
Is truth still more profound:
The branches are extended
And fruit and seeds are round
Which seeds are shared function
Of themselves and the soul
And form, through interaction,
The integrative whole.
Inside a Georgia peanut
A truth still more refined:
The twin seeds are within it
Like, in a brain, two minds,
Each one with its own center
And each having a chance
Inside the ground to enter
Or die forever hence.
The truth within a kiw
iIs truth still more complete:
The prickles are deceiving
-Inside it's nice and sweet
Contained in a banana
More lessons for the mind:
Like woman in bandana
It's lusciousness that hides
And in its fruity essence
The hardy seeds are found
That move through the intestines
To fall into the ground.
In grapes and in the apples
Some lessons can be seen:
The seed-transmission happens
When fruit is red or green,
And which attracts through sweetness
The animal and man
To overlook the seeds as
It spreads them through the land.
Strawberry and raspberry
Have even more to teach:
Inside each one is carried
A multiplicity
And as they work together
And with each other strive
They fight the stormy weather
And make the best survive.
The fruits have much to teach us
About the world and man,
With passion they beseech us
To know and understand,
And lesson is quite simple
And maybe even cute:
I say to all the people -
I'm proud to be a fruit.