Poetry

I Wandered Lonely as a Daffodil

Tell me, how does your garden grow?

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Daffodils
Narcissus
They look like the rest of us
Calm, collected actresses
One well-known for passiveness
The other much more boisterous

Daffodils are generalists — they enchant; they dance; they’re auspicious
But best beware the narcissus — they take what’s theirs; they get away with it

Two diverging preferences
Give way to different challenges
Daffodils fight helplessness
Narcissists face haplessness
Where fields of daff’dils radiate bliss
The other can’t afford the risk

Better a thistle than a weed
Better a flower than a reed
Better a beauty than a bane
Aren’t these blossoms one in the same?

There’s many baleful roles we fill
Be we Narcissus or daffodils