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Sunflowers

Even sunflowers need the rain to grow

Like recycling scar tissue you refuse to show

Like holding the words to a cookbook containing the recipe for disaster

Like the blood of an open wound placed by the whip of an unruly master

Even sunflowers need the rain to grow

Like when you finally learn the meaning of you reap what you sow

Like a magnificent sand castle washed away by the sea

All the sand becomes one and denies the right to be free

Even sunflowers need the rain to grow

Like the sting from the phrase I told you so

Like a deer caught in headlights frozen dead in it's tracks

Like gazing the stars if we could just climb the smoke stacks

Even sunflowers need the rain to grow

Like excluding truth from what you think you know

Like playing life in a game of poker, and the *** is everything but cheap

Karma has the high hand, face up, read'em and weep

Even sunflowers need the rain to grow

Like running through red lights because all you want is to go

Like a jack of all trades who can't fix his own heart

Like the tortoise that took off before the race even start

Even sunflowers need the rain to grow

Like a hundred oars and no arms to row

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Nov 4, 2010
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