Disregard the arrows

From half an orange
you can make an ashtray
From an ashtray a keep-box
that is a thingy-box that 
you can decorate as a coffin
for a small dead pet
From a coffin with sand over it
you can make a vegetable garden,
from a vegetable garden, with some
patience, a forest
From the wood a house with a chimney
and if you know who is seeing the smoke disappear,
and feeling the warmth, then you can make a home
From the home a memory
From a memory a monster,
from a monster an apparent clue
An apparent clue is mapping something
out in the wrong direction
Mapping something out means staying inside
the lines
With those lines you can't tie a rope
to hold down the monster in the vegetable garden,
the beast that now is blowing through the 
cracks in the wood
The beast you created with the knowledge
that there is no way back
That ashtray will never become
half an orange