Bromeliads

So much time is put into perfecting survival

Bromeliads are beautiful

with their slender reaching 

leaves, outstretched to collect

every drop of sweet water dew

the forest provides for them.

Rolling it down to their 

center stalk with such

elegance that only a million

years of random chance

and pure success can produce.

Like an immaculate machine

the bromeliad survives flawlessly

and thrives with stunning wrath,

shooting up blinding blossoms

to signal its own mastery of the Jungle.