An onion
Left by the path
To grow
To discover a life beyond itself
To break through the normal restraints
Of form and function
And domesticity
To escape the chopping blade
To flower
And burst
To experience the slow decay, the withering, the gradual letting go
To fall
To return to the dirt from which it sprang
To experience life’s beginning, middle and end
To allow it all
Rawness and sweetness
And to savour all the flavours that come