Potential


Budding Rose new to this world
What beauty you have left to gleam
Your deep blues and hypnotic purples
Allow us to gaze at your essence
With petals not yet flaunted
And leaves not yet nourished
You aspire lean and hungry toward the sun
Ambition of self worth drives you towering
Future sprouts along side you
Grow a centimeter taller than you
You a sprout grew a centimeter
One more than your predecessor
Not yet seen the world
Your ignorance is your prudish purity
Stem barely strong enough against the wind
Your prodigy of descendants reach
Far corners of the world - millions
You will never see this day
But you still shine brighter than any star
Yell louder than any gust of wind
Stand taller than any tree
More magnificent than the globe itself
If only you possess the vitality
The courage and will
To grow forth, circling the heavens
Eating the sun, drinking the Earth
Using energy to make more
Until the one day that you shed childhood
Adolescent to finding your potential
And open your arms
And inspire your many reflections
To no longer be a Budding Rose


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