Purpose for Radishes

What is the silly radish doing

Making its root red

Underneath the ground?

The radish does not know that it is red;

It cannot see itself.

If there had been no one to pull a radish up,

No one would ever know that it was red;

And radishes could go on for generations

Being red in vain.

 

Radishes are wise to be red

In a world they can be pulled up in; a world they can be washed bright in, and made into flower-like bunches of red and green in; and crushed crisply between teeth to accompany bread and butter in;

And be admired in; and enjoyed in; and seen as red in.

Let radishes continue

To grow sillily

Their red roots underground.