as freedom is a breakfast food

by ee cummings

as freedom is a breakfast food
or truth can live with right and wrong
or molehills are from mountains made
-long enough and just so long
will being pay the rent of seam
and genius please the talent gang
and water most encourage flame

as hatracks into peach trees grow
or hopes dance best on bald men's hair
and every finger is a toe
and any courage is a fear
-long enough and just so long
will the impure think all things pure
and hornets wail by children stung

or as the seeing are the blind
and robins never welcome spring
nor flat folk prove their world is round
nor dingsters die at break of dong
and common's rare and millstones float
-long enough and just so long
tomorrow will not be too late

worms are the words but joy's the voice
down shall go which and up come who
breasts will be breasts and thighs will be thighs
deeds cannot dream what dreams can do
-time is a tree (this life one leaf)
but love is the sky and I am for you
just so long and long enough

my favorite line in this whole poem is "time is a tree (this life one leaf)"
so deep
because a tree, like time is always growing longer and forever moving forward
and life is exactly like a leaf
in the spring, we are born
in the summer, we are fruitful and at the prime of our lives
in the fall, we become wrinkled and turn old
in the winter, we die and wither away
perfect words