The Selfish Dandelion
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0.000 HBDThe Selfish Dandelion
<html> <p><img src="http://www.ciudaddearena.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/black-and-white-dandelion-drawing.jpg"/></p> <p><em><strong>I feel like a dandelion blowing in the wind</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>Like I have a thousand wishes,</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>Yet not one of them is for me</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>Any moment I could be plucked</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>Plucked from the ground</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>And all my wishes would be stolen</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>All taken for only one wish</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>I have a thousand seeds to make a thousand wishes</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>Yet I am only one flower</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>I can only grant one</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>That one wish</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>That special wish</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>The best wish they would wish</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>Though I am a weed</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong> I am also a flower</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>Though I am a granter</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>I am also selfish</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>I do good</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>But I also want more</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>My seeds are spread through the air</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>More granters are made</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>More wishes are wished</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>But I still want more</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>I want to make my own wish</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>I want to be selfish</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>I don't want the wishes to be stolen again</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>But I am but a flower</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>I am but a weed</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>I can not make the wish I wish</strong></em></p> <p><em><strong>When I just wish to be free</strong></em></p> </html>