Filaments!!

Tiny
strands of vertical solids
Tender
owing to their miniscule radii
Grow
in the affinity of heat, fire and
Bend
their old ways back and forth like
Men
who need some tempering and asperity to
learn new ways and yet again
Bend
and imbibe a newer form of matter, mind and mint to
Grow
and sustain success serially in the cold; unlearn and fall back on those
Tender
little hands and feet that were superficially formed from filaments that were
Tiny