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And I have Lived

I've always been one to deviate,

swimming the opposite direction of the current.

Thrashing to be free;

freedom never came easy.

A flower, stationary but sending seeds

flying, busily though the soft breeze.

Have you ever seen them parachute?

Landing on a nest of soil, and somehow,

some way, the perfect sequence of events occur

and a new flower is created.

A dog ate a few.

A few landed in a small puddle,

and a few created life.

I have been eaten alive,

left abandoned in a puddle,

and I have lived.

I'm alive?

Well that was some coincidence.

I'll lean over, and let the bees pollinate

all flowers around me

as i continue to blossom.

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Jan 8, 2011
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