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Featured in the 2022-2023 edition of the Pickwick Papers.
To Bloom by Colette Rosica
i water the flowers
in the garden
until i am dry
and never see them grow.
i could fill a book
with all the things
i don’t know.
i can’t accomplish anything–
not like this.
i am done with watering the grass
with my tears
and waiting
to see it turn green.
instead
i will water me
and bloom like
a dandelion
in the dead lawn.
i will be green enough–
the grass can stay brown.
A note about the poem from the author:
It’s really easy for us to forget that we have to choose our own wellness. Self love doesn’t only look like taking selfies and thinking you look beautiful, it also looks like letting go of the things that you want but that wind up hurting you. Sometimes self love looks like radically choosing to water yourself even if it means the grass around you can’t stay green. Choose to love yourself the way God loves you: exactly as you are. Choose to do things that allow you to grow and blossom into the person you want to be.
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