What used to grow here

What used to grow here?

before this was a house 

where I look out a window

at 10 feet tall weeds- 

We are having a drought,

 and the grasses have dried,

 but

these weeds, left untended, 

have flourished

10 feet. WHY

Does evil grow easy, with effortless grace,

 while

 beauty chokes back in retreat?

In the heat of this place, 

I am wilted 

by noon.