The shrubs were planted row by row<\/p>\n
Each one ready to flower<\/p>\n
Day by day the garden grew,<\/p>\n
Looking greener than ever.<\/p>\n
And finally the fated day had come<\/p>\n
Each shrub was blooming flowers<\/p>\n
All except a little shrub<\/p>\n
Thorns littering all around it<\/p>\n
The little boy was upset at first,<\/p>\n
But then he made a decision<\/p>\n
\u2018Let all the flowers grow up first,<\/p>\n
this little plant is special\u2019<\/p>\n
And every day he pottered there<\/p>\n
to sing to his special flower.<\/p>\n
While the other children laughed at him,<\/p>\n
mocking his sweet belief.<\/p>\n
No one but the boy had noticed<\/p>\n
how much his plant had grown<\/p>\n
losing all its ugly thorns<\/p>\n
and a bud was finally showing.<\/p>\n
All the other flowers were plucked<\/p>\n
and decorated the village girls\u2019 hair<\/p>\n
but his little flower bloomed and bloomed<\/p>\n
not seeming to cease or care.<\/p>\n
The villagers seemed shocked at first<\/p>\n
to see such a pretty flower<\/p>\n
but then they clapped and cheered for the boy<\/p>\n
who stood there all flustered.<\/p>\n
None in that village knew<\/p>\n
that it was just a weed<\/p>\n
never meant to flower<\/p>\n
but the little boy never gave up hope<\/p>\n
and that\u2019s all we ever need.<\/p>\n
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