Sunflower Sights

You used to always see me

Around nature; grass or tree

I would grow to great heights

Sometimes so extreme

Growing so high I could touch the sky

It was quite a dream

But then humans came

With their civilisations

They built houses

Then, train stations

They slowly killed my family

It was a disaster, a calamity

I had to protect the ones I loved,

The ones I feared would be gone.

I led them over no-man’s land

So we could carry on

As the building of houses calmed down, we regrew over time

We became the most important again, the highest, the prime

I’m a sunflower tall in the sky,

No matter what happens I’ll always stand high.