Beautiful Fruits

To be the fruit,
Fruit of the tree,
of everyone's lust,
is an accomplishment.

In the years,
years of growth,
years of ripening,
should be taken slow.

To see such beauty,
beauty in such fruit,
and taint it from within,
dulls the beauty.

Once tainted,
the defiler is responsible,
now for the beautiful fruit.
No one will touch it now.

To walk away,
away from your poison,
not to finish the job,
is one of cowardliness.

To grow new fruit,
in the once beautiful one,
is murder,
murder of years to come.

Tend the new fruit,
make it grow,
slowly and protected,
from happening again.