Mishaps
A rose
Considered one of the most beautiful things to many people
“A rose, by any other name, would smell as sweet”
Are we so sure? If a dandelion were not considered a weed but a beautiful flower would everyone not follow suit and agree? Would we not cherish this weed with as much reverence? Then a rose, if seen first as a prickly weed, would prove to be thought exactly that which the dandelion is now.
A diamond.
The most precious jewel in most eyes
Starting as a rock and cut and shaped into its new beauty. Cut out of stone, cut away from its outer shell. Remove its skin and it is the most beautiful and lustrous, the most luminous. Twiddled down further we find that it disappears from its original glory and is transformed into whatever beauty that the ‘creator’ wants.
A student
No more than a combination of that diamond and that rose
Carved into the image of its mentor and painted to be made into something new and fake; removed from its original, natural beauty and altered until there is but a vague resemblance. Or, they could be tossed aside by the mentor who adopted another and face to live as the weed, protruding from the ground and stepped and spit on. A rose at heart, yet ignored because of a simple mistake or misfortune.
