Proud of My Plant Love

You may or may not know,

I am a plant lover.

Fourteen years back,

on this day,

I came to the USA,

to start an immigrant life,

in California.

All the flora here,

were so different,

from what I knew,

in my homeland, India,

which was disorienting to me.

How can I love and connect,

to a place.

if I don’t know its plants?

I dove into learning.

It wasn’t too difficult,

with the internet,

and social media groups,

By the end of a year,

I knew the vast majority

of the trees!

I can’t tell you

how important,

that decision was,

for now, I go to nature,

to meet the plants,

as if my loved folks,

To hug,

the sycamores and oaks,

My life is better

for the connection,

to these sessile angels.

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