the plant

friday i threw away an orchid
I had been trying to get it to flower, I did not
want to give up on it, but it had been
two years- so I threw it in a bag
under my sink

this evening when getting ready to throw
the bag out, I looked inside and there it was
green, no different than it was the day i threw
it out- but what was different about it was the way
I looked at it, the way I chose to see it.