ALLIUM

The future: There will be sweet onions.
There'll be onions in colours arcane.
In the future we till, the alliums will
(though I cannot know if we will be here still)
range much broader than brown and mundane.

Our heritage lives in the onions.
Our hands have affected their strain.
A leek we select and seek to perfect;
planting the ones that have passed the inspect
so that roots may compete with the grain.

The future: There will come new onions.
The shallot will grow in soft rains.
The garlic and chive (whether we are alive)
from under the ground will continue to strive;
pushing up through the world that remains.