Poetry Volumes

Asylum Smiles Poems

Wildflower

Pride says I am no one.

Ego dictates what I think of you.

Should I be in your face

to spew my wisdom

without the benefit of a tic tac?

And if I did,

could you hear over the stench

of my self righteous hypocrisy?


I am a self proclaimed weed

amidst the field of your desirable wheat.

I am the one you would uproot

and remove from your sea of social stigma.

You call me evil in your garden

while you are not hungry.

You fight a lifetime to remove me

from your perfect landscape.


Yet, when my creator calls,

I rise to the occasion.

You see me bloom by the road while

you rant at thoughtless drivers

giving yourself a headache.


At my worst,

I am a thorn in your side.

At my best,

I make the most desolate countryside

a joy to behold.

I grow tall and proud,

rejoicing in the gift of being.

Witness to the alpha and omega.


No, I will not breath ugliness on you

and wish you to the pits of misery.

I will not call you what you are

in case you do not know.

I will simply stand and be a weed.

A God made, perfectly created,

Free to smile at you

Wildflower.