weeds

i wonder how long it will be
before wind
or heavy snow
takes them to the ground

and i wonder how they came
to be called
weeds

they look to me
like remnants of
royalty


*"Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful; for beauty is God's handwriting--a wayside sacrament.  Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing."   ~Ralph Waldo Emerson