ponderingcomplications:

Today I am more petal than root
or stem,

I am gentle and soft
and fragile

and beautiful, dare I say it,
beautiful,
because I exist.

And though my petals
may fall or shed,
the crown may tumble
from my head,

I am more than these petals,
I am both root and stem,

I will rise and grow again

I will persist.