Should’ve been a Tulip

I wonder

Does the flower postulate

Propose

Hypothesize

That it was made for a reason?

Does its photosynthetic existence

Depend upon its consciousness

Of action or reaction?

Does the seed

Need

A pep talk

To break the shell?

Never having to contemplate

Inventory

Or rectify

Much less decide;

Only soak in the sun.

Yet, that verb can't quantify

The enormity represented

In those petals

Stems

And leaves.

What is perceived

As just "being"

Is provocatively,

Simply,

Supremely,

Complicated.

I suppose I will only feel

"Evolved"

When I can turn light

into food

Or thought

Into action.

That seems just as distant a reality.

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