The Dandelion

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I don't know why in the world

you love a girl like me

So full of flaws and insecurities

In a world full of roses who'd settle for less

Tall, skinny, shapely having nice breast.

Me, I'm just a dandelion, a simple yellowish flower

Not worthy of the sun or the evening's showers.

I often watch as those roses are chosen

While me I just sit there frozen

Gardeners have tried to pluck me from the earth

Pretending to see me as something they worth

A few were successful to make the dandelion smile

But when they were bored threw me off a mile

And So I had to begin again and find new roots

Hoping that one day maybe I'd  shoot.

But After so many heartbreaks i was not looking to leave

So I found home close to the trees.

The trees were a comfort, like none I've ever known

My broken stem and crooked roots healed in this new home

I learned to be wiser and thus then I grew

No wind was strong enough to move me, no rain or dew.

In the distance I noticed some roses catching breath

Had some cruel gardeners left them for dead?

Them maybe I thought, was it just me

Perhaps they got hurt from silly old bees

But at alast then it hit me

Like a nail on a wood

All flowers get hurt that's just the way the world works

In this world we call life

One thing was true

Even the trees seemed to whisper

You'd get hurt soon.

So i promised the trunk of the old sturdy tree

I swore on the birds and I swore on the bees

If ever I wanted to fall in love again

That the wind with its might would sweep away

That it'd uproot this dandelion and send it flying

Cause another kiss from love would feel like dying.

Now we all know that this never came to be

Cause I fell in love when you first looked at me

You were different from the gardeners

Who first wanted a rose.

The dandelion's petals tickeled your nose.

You laughed at the outcome and looked at me

And wondered what flower could this be

I swear that you've been the one from the start

Your smile and love has warmed my heart

I love you so much and it kills me inside

To know that some one this wonderful was alive

So many years I wished to be rose

Just to have someone just to hold

Who'd look at me from the time I walk in

Who'd make me feel comfortable in my skin.

And there you stand in a rose filled pasture

and my heart,palpates and races faster

To know that you could love a girl like me

One so full of countless insecurities

You know them all and you still don't care

And thats more than my heart can bear

Who'd choose a dandelion over a rose.

I wonder why you love me

Maybe nobody knows?

You took this girl and you charmed her life.

With your love you warmed the nights.

The nights that were cold from the moon's shine

Who couldn't have the sun and Call it mine.

You told me a time I remember it well

Its one of the many reasons I fell

You said I fell in love the way you pick a flower

Based on the smell and my favorite color

The things that bring out the beauty in you.

Your eyes and your mouth and your very cute smile

The way you walk  with your own little style.

How you never react with justice or strife

And perhaps for those simple reasons I'd love you all my life.

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