Roses/Lotus/Violet/Iris

I have seen your body

And I have seen your beauty

They are separate things

Pretty pretty things

But I am in a garden

Tending to my own

So what do I care

And what do you care if I grow?

Roses Roses Roses

Show no concern for colors of a Violet

Lotus Lotus Lotus

Hopes it won’t spark envy in your Irises

Think of all the wilted women

Who crane their necks to reach a window

Ripping all their petals off just cause

“He loves me now he loves me not”

I myself was a wilted woman

Drowsy in a dark room.

Forgot my roots.

Now watch me bloom.

Roses Roses Roses

Show no concern for colors of a Violet

Lotus Lotus Lotus

Hopes it won’t spark envy in your Irises

I will not compare other beauty to mine

I will not become a thorn in my own side

I will not return to where I once was

I can break through the earth, come up soft and wild.

Roses Roses Roses

Show no concern for colors of a Violet

Lotus Lotus Lotus

Hopes it won’t spark envy in your Irises