Pansies - The Warrior Flower
Wise Raven of the Drive thru Gives Advice
The Pansy
Look!
Look Here my friend!
Give me a bit of your meal and I will tell you some wisdom
The wisdom of Raven for three of your hot french fries.
Flick...Snap!Snap!...Gulp!
Thank you friend. Thank you friend.
Now Look!
Look!
Look Down my friend.
Down at the burnt corner of the lawn.
Down to the darkened corner by the fence,
Unseen amidst wind blown plastic bags and crushed plastic liquor bottles
A flower
A Pansy
So soft, so delicate, as if it would dissolve upon too hard a stare
Bright yellow bolts of lightning burst from its heart
Flash across the midnight blue of it broad petals
Its neighbor, velvety purple, and blood red with streaks of fiery flame,
Bright against the backdrop of dull brown and dead grey
The bold dress with which it is adorned
Declares this Pansy is no delicate flower
It stands proud
Against tempest and trampling man
Against the rains that hammer upon it’s head
Ice and snow and deep freeze
Summer’s blazing breath
And yet it stands
Courage and strength attested
By the address at which …
