backyard

A single flower among thousands will go unnoticed.

But a single flower among weeds is celebrated by all.

 

Some days your darkness will feel impossibly large.

Do not lose sight of the flower that grows under it.

 

Soil is made of death but in it life grows.

 

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For you, who feels like you've sown a garden of weeds.

There is beauty there.

 

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Flowers grow in me

but weeds always grow taller -

a deadly eclipse.

 

Weeds grow throughout me

but vibrant flowers grow tall -

eclipsed by petals.

 

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"Backyard", self-portrait, March 2021

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