You always told me

I was a tulip

When I thought of myself

As a dandelion

You promised

To tend me

To water me

To help me grow and flourish

But one day

You fed me weed killer

And told me

It was nectar

And I believed you

I believed you when

My leaves shriveled up and

My color was drained

I believed you

Because you were a daffodil

And weeds are nothing

Next to flowers

But one day

I told myself

That I was

An orchid

And that was what

I became

And your weed killer

No longer

Had its hold on me

I grew taller

And stronger

Than even you

And I crowded you out of the garden

And now I take

My own sun

Leaving you to scavenge

For the remaining