Friday, March 09, 2018

Such Is the Plight of Man

Flowers in spring prefer growing in crowds.
They seem a sociable cult.
But flowers can never grow on a cloud
With any successful result.

A cloud is unstable, acceptive to change.
They lose their bearing to the wind in exchange
For a free-born spirit to stroll 'cross the blue
To wherever the wind wants to carry them to.

But flowers are stable, their roots need the soil.
They reach for the sun. They labor and toil
To free their roots from the bonds that confine;
To rescue their souls, deliver their minds
So that they too may fly where the free wind may bid;
To see what's to see; to shout it out loud;
I'm free, I'm whole, my bloom is unhid."
...But a flower can't grow on a cloud.

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