Petunias

I don’t recall 

What a Petunia looks like 

I’ve no sense at all 

I picture a small, round flower 

This hour 

Not a perennial,

But the kind that you have to 

Replant every year 

That’s my idea 

And it’s not too clear 

But it doesn’t really matter 

A name like Petunia 

Sounds so cute 

That I don’t really care 

What it looks like 

If you told me 

You bought me 

A Petunia 

I would smile 

For a while 

Even if I didn’t remember 

Precisely 

What it looked like 

Or smelled like 

And so it is 

With best things in life 

They bring us a smile 

And a warm, cozy feeling 

Even when 

We don’t understand them

Even when 

There isn’t a why 

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