Leaving Behind the Endless Fields of Corn and Soybeans

Daisy Chains

The way her fingers

Thread the stems together

So intricately

So delicate in their work

The way she focuses on the daisies

How her face scrunches up

It's the cutest face, I swear

She threads and knits the stems together

Creating chains and crowns of daisies

I don't know how she does it

She tries to teach me

But I'm always at an utter lost

Or so in awe with her

I eventually stop listening to her

She is so passionate about her work

I love her for that

For her passion

For her aspirations

She finishes the crown of daisies

Daintily setting it upon my head

She'll laugh

As it falls onto my face

Saying that I'm now a flower princess

But I'll laugh

And say she's the princess

She was the one who made the crown after all

We agree that we're both flower princesses

With our crowns of daisies

She links some more daises together

Making smaller chains

Turned bracelets

She wraps them around my wrist

And hers

She says that they're a promise

Of friendship that'll last forever

I smile and nod

Daisies mean innocence

Like the innocent promise of we'll be friends forever

Forever can't last

But I like the idea

Of how daisies symbolize love

While her promise is innocent

I like to think

The promise is something more

We'll love each other forever

At least

For as long as forever lasts