MY POEM

this is the ttly awesome poem Delaney and i are memorizing!!!!!

Identity
by Julio Noba

Let them be as flowers,
always watered, fed, guarded, admired,
but harnessed to a pot of dirt.

I'd rather be a tall ugly weed,
clinging to the cliff like an eagle,
wind wavering above high, jagged rocks

To have broken through the surface of stone to live,
to feel exposed to the madness of the vast, eternal sky,
to be swayed by the breezes of an ancient sea,
carrying my soul, my seed, beyond the mountains of time,
or into the abyss of the bizarre.

i'd rather be unseen,
than shunned by everyone,
than to ba a pleasant smelling flower,
growing in clusters in the fertile valley
where they'd be praised, handeled, and plucked,
by greedy human hands.

I'd rather smell the musty green stench,
than of sweet fragrant lilac.
if i could stand alone,
strong and free,
I'd rather be a tall, ugly weed.