because they are the flower
of wishes. You blow that ball
of seeds and the wind carries them to the one
assigned to grant or reject.
And it’s a good thing
that it’s the dandelions
who have this power
because they are tough
and sometimes you have to be tough
to even remember
that you have any desires left at all,
to believe that even one
could be satisfied, would not turn
to an example of
“be careful what you wish for,
it might come true.”
Maybe that’s exactly why
there are so many of them –
the universe gives us extra chances
to keep dreaming.
Each one an uprising,
a burst of color
in the cracks of our hearts,
sunrise
at an unexpected time,
in an unexpected place.
-Ellie Schoenfeld, “Lucien’s Birthday Poem"
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