From Where You’re Standing

“What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing.  It also depends on what sort of person you are.”   C.S. Lewis, The Magician’s Nephew

Most call it a weed

But it declares itself

Survivor

Victorious

Determined to reclaim territory

in grassy lawns, between flagstones, under a rose bush

Wildflower?

Native Texas Plant?

Field green when found in a bag at the store?

Its highest purpose blooms

in feathery puffs –

bane of gardener

delight of every child

who holds it up to make a wish

blowing away a cloud of laughter