Sunflowers

Even as children
The young sunflowers bent their stalks
Reaching toward the sun

If you were to just observe one
Or maybe a couple
You might think that the young ones
Were growing crooked
Or had been pushed over
By the wind

But there was no wind
And there was no this
And there was no that
There was only the Sun

"Reach little sunflower
To the Sun
That is the only way
You will grow"

And so
As the sunflowers grew
All they ever did was
Reach out to the Sun
Because that's all they knew
To do

"Reach out to the Sun because
Life depends on it because
The Sunflower
knows nothing else because
The Sunflower Loves
The Sun"