Today I Watched a Flower Bloom

Today I watched a flower bloom

To greet the morning sun

Unfurling petals one by one

As the daylight softly comes

 

When in full-bloomed splendor

Its fragrance filled the air

Turned toward its lover’s light

Without another care

 

How pretty are its petals

Swaying in the breeze

Rejoicing in its life

With simple-minded ease

 

But, as all things surely pass,

Did daylight turn to dusk

I saw it curl upon itself

To hide within its husk

 

Are we like the flowers,

Turning toward love’s light?

Only again to hide away

In the dark and lonely night-

 

To await our sun’s return,

For dawn to grace the sky,

To feel the warmth of sunlight

From within our lover’s eyes