Long Live The Weeds

Long live the weeds that overwhelm

My narrow vegetable realm! -

The bitter rock, the barren soil

That force the son of man to toil;

All things unholy, marked by curse,

The ugly of the universe.

The rough, the wicked, and the wild

That keep the spirit undefiled.

With these I match my little wit

And earn the right to stand or sit,

Hope, love, create, or drink and die:

These shape the creature that is I.

  *inspired by Gerald Manley Hopkins' poem Inversnaid