Dillon Lopes - Poetry

“Growing Together in the Same Pot”

by Dillon Lopes, Fall 2021

Simple enough as it is

We’re forced to grow in the same Pot.

So I ask why,

Why do we fertilize or soils

With the poisons of discriminitation

Only for the reason that one’s stem

Isn’t as thick or sturdy as their neighbor’s

Or that one takes more than a moment to blossom

Or that this one’s inferior

Since its petals are differently colored?

No sense is made or involved

With everyone’s hostile motives.

A batch of daisies might consider those

Scum or the Pot lilacs

Are the cause of the Pot’s latest crack.

Now the Lilacs don’t bother solving their Pot’s prob;lems

Only because those subordinate lessers

Believe in the wrong Watering Cans.

It’s incredibly crucial that the residents of the bouquet

Understand they’re Growing Together in the Same Pot.