Where the Lotus Grows In mud and places you call rejects Those are the places I call home In all those places you're irritated by That is how I find my strength Sometimes different can be useless And not necessarily unique But I guarantee you one fact You'll rarely find me in palaces and castles Dining before kings and Queens But when the lonely uncelebrated swamps are called You'll find me blooming in the mud Because my strength comes not from having it all It comes from growing the beautiful out of life's ugly I am lotus and I am proud to be @GraceOla 2017