The Water Lily

About a flower

She sits in wholesome weightlessness

floating as if in totality of blissfulness

Immersed in the essence of essential purity

as if being a redeeming message of divinity

 

She harbours upon the giver of life

in calm and cool water she thrives

As if being a message of creation

one that’s an outstanding ovation

 

From here to eternity she shall bloom

not knowing her hour of doom

For she radiates with such magnificence

captivating hearts and minds with opulence

 

Such beauty and grace she possess

colours so pastel they begin to obsess

Just as life has its calming moments

from a turbulent world of events

 

Still she will retreat from time to time

only to emerge stronger and so prime

For she is a creation of lasting beauty

just like us, a creation no less mighty

 

Sprouting buds as she may, revitalising

fresh as the wind, curt and mesmerising 

For she thrives as she gloriously lives

comes a day she will cease to give