Gaul Atreides (@gaulatreides)

Last Leaf There was a little tree it grew alone it grew proud "I need no one! I will plant my deep roots here cover myself in the thickest bark and reach to the sky for there is greatness in me!" And so he grew. And then other trees planted their roots near it And those trees shared messages between their roots chemical messages which helped them grow bigger, faster, and taller. Until the day came that their canopies rose above the canopy of our prideful tree and overshadowed it depriving it of sunlight until it began to lose its leaves suffocating in the shadow of the giants above it it refused help from trees of his kin it refused to set seed "I will grow!" it insisted "I will rise to my greatness!" and then it fell silent when its last leaf proud to the end fluttered to the forest floor to feed the trees that supplanted it