Seeds of Love

Come into the garden

with me.

Together, our hands

will caress and

warm the earth.

Place the seeds

in shallow holes

and cover them

with the well-tilled topsoil.

Then, water with

a warm shower

and place them in

the loving rays

of the sun.

Before you know it,

they will germinate

within their warm

and dark cradles.

They will break from

their shells and reach

their green heads

towards the sun.

 

Love will make them

grow tall and bloom.

As they mature,

they will send out

into the world

precious seeds of love.

In the world,

hate is a weed

that runs rampant.

It conquers and chokes

with its constricting vines.

The seeds of hate

are planted in hearts,

where love should grow.

 

The seeds waft lazily

into the hateful

world and embed themselves

in cold hearts.

They feed off of what

love they can salvage.

The seeds of love

choke and kill

the vines of hate

Love lends warmth,

allowing its

precious progeny to prosper.

Then, love will grow

and mature,

spreading its seeds

from person to person.

Love will conquer all.

Author's Note

This past spring I tried to plant some sunflowers. They grew beautifully, but they have halted growth in the last few months. I have little experience in gardening, but I am still going to try because I love it. As I have thought about my plants, I have grown to love them. Then, I began to think about how love is much like a plant: it must put its seeds in the proper place and grow in order to spread. Hate is a constricting, weedy vine that poisons and kills all that it conquers.

Amazing what one can think of! Love and hate can be easily spread and easily killed. However, I think that love is preferable to hate. What about you? What have you thought love and hate to be like?