Lines 13-18 from the poem "Identity" suggest that the attention from "greedy, human hands" affect flowers by taking away their freedom and their life.
The poem "Identity" by Julio Noboa compares people to flowers and weeds. The speaker would rather be a weed, since weeds are never plucked by "greedy, human hands." Rather, they stay tall and free, grow on mountains and feel the sunshine.
Flowers, as stated in lines 13-18, are plucked, handled and potted because of their beauty and fragrance. Human attention ends up taking away their freedom and their life. People want to possess that which is beautiful.
Lines 13-18 are the following:
"I'd rather be unseen, and if
then shunned by everyone,
than to be a pleasant-smelling flower,
growing in clusters in the fertile valley,
where they're praised, handled, and plucked
by greedy, human hands."
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