Life cycle of a tree

There once was a little boy

Small, filled with life;

Bundled into a small green ball

There once was a young man

Adolescent, experiencing life;

Unraveling from his ball.

There once was a middle-aged man

Fully emerged from his shell;

Absolutely sick of life.

There once was an old man

Crinkled, longing for his shell;

Drinking the last drop of life.

There once was a dead man

Killed by the winter;

Dropped from his branch

But in his place,

A new boy bloomed

Which starts the cycle again...