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Top of the food chain
Can’t be what makes us human...
’Cause wild grizzly bears
By Matthew Niemiec, PT, MPT, CKTP
Rose Again
By Nadia Afkhami, Optometry student
I was a rose bush sprout
Desperate for sunlight
Laying quietly on the
Concrete balcony.
I reached up closer to the sun everyday
Pulling myself towards every ray
As days passed
I came to realized
That sun without water
Doesn’t lead to growth.
So I waited for the rain
Waiting thirsty day after day.
I retreated back into my porcelain pot
Burned now by the sun
Withering.
And with one gust of wind my porcelain tumbled
Freeing me from my dry prison
And I fell
Slowly into the courtyard
Reaching down into the earth
Rooting myself with gravity
Deeper and deeper still
Drinking up the soil
Drinking up the sun
And starting again
As a new rose sprout
Photo by Jeff Malet, Multimedia Manager, WesternU Public Affairs and Marketing
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