My Redemption ( Collab with Star )

In the village of Heydon,
a civil parish of Norfolk, England
a professor said to me:

“I wasn't looking for something,
until I found gardens of you;
an unusual plant with roots
buried under layers of mud.”

I, confused, but embraced warmly
by sunshine rays, begin to sprout
out of the darkness I lived in for years.
While that happened, I hear the
professor say:

“We lived in a fraction of life, dormant
concealing beauty within ghost ponds.
Then you came back from the dead,
breathing a new spirit to a world
that stood in a halt.”

I casually gazed at him, my pinkish
petals swaying with winds that now
feel heavier than they’ve ever been,
yet not as heavy as the weight of
the professor’s words blowing harder
and harder on me

“To think that in order for life to be born
a life must be left at the hands of Death”

I, in silence, stretch my stem and leaves,
look around, petals turning pale,
I see willows uprooted from the ground

I gave them nothing but they gave me life.

Written by: Star and Everlasting