vacant lot...

I was taking the bus home from work last week. It passes by these three vacant lots where the houses were demolished to make room for infill properties. The structures are gone, but the holes where they used to be are still there and are becoming overgrown with weeds. Standing tall in the middle lot was one bright yellow sunflower. It made me smile and think. Such perfect beauty among the ruins of old houses. And it was almost defiant as it grew among the weeds. I could see them taunting it, saying things like "You suck Sunflower!" or "You're not wanted here!" Sometimes I feel like that sunflower must have felt as it tried to grow up in a garden of weeds. It just made me feel really warm and fuzzy.