What is a Water Lily? And what about the way it rises? Am I supposed to imitate? Is it the way it comes out of the mud, clean? Or how it spreads out on water after traveling through the murkest? Is it the way its stem stretches the furthest to greet the sun? What is it about the water lily's environment that makes it grow? Is it the determination to grow beyond its present circumstances? Does the water lily refuse to grow because it can't be admired until it blooms? Am I supposed to grow when no one is applauding? Is the oppression of this land supposed to make make me stop? Is not the purpose of life for testing and teaching? Can I spread out like the water lily? Can I gain strength where other flowers have died? Can I be like the water lily whose path is difficult and not laid with comfort? In the face of hostile men, can I stand tall like the lily? Who never lets the wiles of the world drown her, but swim? Out of all the flowers, Yah favors the water lily? What is a Water Lily?