Michela Vismara

Even nature gets insecure

If only I were that flower,

have the confidence not to shy or cower,

Pretty enough to charm the bees,

a life so sweet, simple, at ease,

Pretty enough to be picked for a bouquet,

Pretty like a daisy or fay.

 

But my stump is fat,

my roots are Ugly, my bark is brown,

my trunk hold rats.

My leaves have drowned.

My skeleton crooked, branches: soured,

I\'m trapped in this jealous tower.

Oh what I would give to be that delicate flower.