any damn fool can grow zinnias

any damn fool can grow zinnias
any damn fool can package shit and call it love and ask
why do you not take this nice love i offer you
something is wrong with you
that you do not recognize such nice love

any damn fool can get stuck in fear or greed
and make it your fault
you do not recognize such nice love

we’ve all had them
these petty tyrants of love
but we all have hearts too
and hearts know the truth
hearts know what love isn’t and what it is

sometimes for reasons of our own
our own fear
our own greed
our own nobility
we try not to listen to our hearts
some succeed
they go their whole lives not hearing the heart cry out
they hear something cry out
but they will not admit it is the heart

others of us find that with practice
the listening gets easier
but never as easy as growing zinnias

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