Day 43: Green Rooms & Pink Blooms

Where does your good grow?

 

All the things I grow

in the earth
in my mind
in my heart
in my home

too often stay there,

in the earth
in my mind
in my heart
in my home.

and I wonder,

is that the best place for them?

The good things I grow?

Of course, when they’re seed,
yes,
they must be sheltered and shaped,
pruned and secured.

We all need safe places to be new.
to be green.

Then comes sprout and leaf
and we test our foliage against the sun.

But the bloom –
the perfume –

This is the harvest. This is the good that grew.

 

Now we must bear it

out of the earth
out of the mind
out of the heart
out of the home

and into green rooms,
black corners,
blue moods,
and red mornings,

and there, it might bring good to others, too.

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