Wonder is a Sage Green Crocus

“Why?”

I asked 

for the twenty-ninth time,

though I wasn’t 

the one keeping count

“That one,” I said,

my finger 

pointing out the obvious

“Why does it stay green?”

“It is young and still growing,”

she replied 

with more patience

than I might muster

in her place

“Like me,” 

I exclaimed

“Yes, dear. Like you.”

“But, mom, 

what if it never 

turns purple,

what if it is always 

different than the rest?”

“Then it will still be beautiful

just the way it is.”

“Like me?”

I asked hesitantly,

hopefully

“Just like you,”

she smiled,

awaiting my 

next question

4 Apr 2020