Poetry: Ode to tea farmers

Although this is written specifically about tea, it is really an ode to all small farmers. May we appreciate all that they do for those of us are not one of them.

The words of a tea

hidden so deep

when uncovered by me

a treasure they seem

A treasure to drink

a treasure to write

the words that link

to a story untold

Yet I tell it in poetry

though the silence unwritten

tells the greater story

of the people who grew

Those farmers who toiled

who tended and cared

let the tea grow unsoiled

and harvested with care

Who took the leaf raw

and for hours worked hard

to get out any flaw

and end up with a perfect tea.