Tuesday, August 22, 2023

Queen Of The Cattails

 I exchanged all the little things

for monstrosities.


Can you believe me when I say;

I traded in the hills for mountains,

carved my face,

and moved on with my life?


Yet I gave up the forest for the thickets

because they were familiar to me. 


And in the thicket,

I found my crown

of esteem and dreams.


Queen Of The Cattails,

they say as I stand

proud in the swamp.


Where no one can see my face,

but the frogs who turn to Kings.


They believed in me.