HeartLines

A Sacred Heart University Student-Run Literary Magazine

“The Blooming Dilemma”-Broderick Cole Prendergas

Spend sunny days growing as a blemish in the grass
Dancing day by day with each delicate and dynamic pass
Many people gander only to see the flower’s beauty as a weed

Commonwealth hasten its life to have wishes dispersed through seed

The flower’s abundant parachutes are carried along by the breeze

Following the flow of all else, pressured for their uniqueness to seize


When the flower finally matures it is golden yellow like the sun

Yet it is too late by then, the flower’s reputation is already done

Society has already deemed this flower to be too much
A flower that stands out, yet a weed to be crushed

If only uniqueness was not looked at as a flaw
The only things accepted are those of societal law
The masses try to change people that appear different than the rest

Yet when they need them for something they wish for the best


The parachute and its origin are like that of the way of life
No matter how beautiful anything is, the smallest blemish causes strife

A society that no longer accepts evolution and innovative change
It makes us ask ourselves, what truly is the range?
Both uniqueness and uselessness are rendered moot in present day

Parachutes filled with wishes can now go either way.

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