The Quiet Strength of Chamomile

by Maryam Shokoohi · Den Haag, NL

It dances in the wind— small, white, unassuming, as if it rose from the earth for just one purpose: to remind us of gentleness and resolve. No one notices, no one bends down for it. Yet with a stem that clings fiercely to the soil and petals that quiver at every breeze, it whispers: "To be—this is enough… fragile, yet steadfast." Chamomile— a flower that asks for neither light nor applause, and yet, through its quiet grace, gives meaning to life itself. In the silence of the meadow, beneath the proud shadow of sunflowers, with all its smallness, it believes in existence It dances in the wind