Wildflower

The wind howled at it

The rain drenched

The sun blistered

Animals trampled

It dug in deeper

Emerged triumphantly

Spread its leaves of liberty

Beamed with resilient optimism

Defiant of destructive forces

Standing as the good example

The wildflower propagated

Freedom’s never-ending will

-Camille Delaquise

This poem appears in RISE, Camille’s second contemporary poetry collection. Wildflower explores resilience under pressure — imagining freedom not as fragility, but as a living force that strengthens through adversity and persists against attempts to crush it. There may be another hidden interpretation of this poem, which is in the line “Standing as the good example”

This poem is available as a contemporary poetry print on textured recycled card.