If I were to be a flower, I think that I'd be destined to be a sunflower. It's so delightful and cheery, and as you smile at it's beautiful petals, it's almost as if you can see it smiling right back. I want to be like that. Roses may be pretty, but they always have thorns. You may wish on a dandelion, but others consider it no more than a weed- but sunflowers, they are beautiful. Honestly, I don't think I've ever seen a real sunflower with my own eyes. If I could just see one, I'd know that it would be a good day.
But if I could be a sunflower, I'd sit in the field amongst the others and smile at passerbys all day long. I'd smile at you for a while, then smile at myself, and then I'd turn to the sun and smile at it. In the words of Hellen Keller: "Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see the shadow. It's what sunflowers do."
It'd be nice not to see any shadow.
Delightfully written, Stephanie.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was a child I had a sunflower. I remember it towering over me as it was nearly five feet tall. c':
I love sunflowers and we have a sort of neighbor who grows a whole field of them. Awesome!
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