The powerful plants can do just what they want.

However, I admire their flowers of red
The shape is elegant, the colour clear.
And had they been in a much bigger bed
Both flowers would give us pleasure without fear.

Magnolias pink my eyes still do adore
Two of them I see from off the bus.
A visual parable, a story for
The short sweet life of all, including us.

We deceive ourselves in order to survive.
But shallowness makes trivia of our lives