The College of Wood and Weevil

If you tend your garden well,
There are species you will help
And species you will defeat.

If you let beds go to seed,
Certain species won’t survive
While others will only thrive.

If you don’t garden at all,
Don’t rake anything in fall,
Yet other lives will begin

To lose and others to win.
Do nothing, and you’ll still make
Some strategies become mistakes.