three hundred.

lilies endure the heat of the sun, too.

and you say you want to be prettier than the lily that
fought through and grew out of a field of weeds -
so you say,
you'd like to stand as high and as tall as the lily
that tore through and broke through the confines
of a lost youth,
skipped stages of produce -
but managed to still be beautiful just, to you.

you say you want to experience life on the cool side,
no heat, no warmth, just cool -

one thing you've got to realize is
energy comes from the sun -
the sun inspires the cool,
because without it, cool wouldn't exist.

and that lily recognized this -
which is why she rose,
even when the sun
deemed her
to be
sold
to the hot
rays
of the
treacherous
sun.