Some peaches drop
from trees prematurely
still a bit hard and unripe
they land beautifully
unbruised
but unedible
and then there are some
that hang dutifully to that
matriarch branch
getting nourished and strengthened
into the sweetest
most favoured
when they fall
they land blemished
sometimes severely marred
and are many times dismissed
by their appearance
forsaken, abandoned…to rot
Em