Samanyan Lakshminarayanan - # # LET ME BE....

a cactus or a flower
let me be whatever
let me be what i am
let me seem what i am
let me not seem a flower..and
poke my way farer
let me not seem a cactus...and
fear away the other
let me seem what i am
let me be just what i am

Samanyan Lakshminarayanan

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