JUST BREATHE AND BLOOM

  Why do you hide, petals

  shyer than the weeds that glare

  through the dirt, boldly eating up

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  real estate and sun, flaunting their

  sticky roots and lack of spring colors?

  Why do the flowers who inspire

  the artists and dazzle the child

  hide beneath the thicket of

  things that will never

  bloom like you?