Creeps

Slowly it rises, never noticeably,
  not right in front of you,
It comes, a little green here, a bud
  coming there, and you begin
To see new life springing up all
  around and about you.
Still you have to look for it, pay
  attention to the change,
Or it just comes in surprise one
  morning and you never realize
What you have missed by ignoring
  each and every little sign.
It awakens so slowly, and yet we
  somehow think it came
Overnight of its own making, we
  missed the birds tilling, the
Worms working, the rain pounding
  and the simple way of it.