This a poem about a ‘weird wisdom’ I once received from my mother which was “Everytime You Tell A Lie, A Daisy Dies”

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Once my friend asked me,

“Why won’t you ever tell a lie?

Don’t you get tired of being

Honest all the time?”

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I told her how the answer lies in

What my Ammi said to me once,

When I was a little child of five,

And it has kind of stuck ever since.

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“Beta, everytime you tell a lie,

A daisy dies somewhere in the world.”

-Armaan 

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Prompt 6 for NaPoWriMo: Today we’d like to challenge you to write a poem rooted in “weird wisdom,” by which we mean something objectively odd that someone told you once, and that has stuck with you ever since.

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