FLOWERS IN DESSERT TIME

FLOWERS IN DESSERT TIME

Doorway to things of flowering beauty, unexpected, foreign,
of barren land, this dessert place-

Embracing tender life that belongs not, in such hostile ground, so arid, sandy, dusty-

Secure in the knowledge of ages gone by, that shown upon this dessert, such beauty, and will again, has again-

Scattered, multitudes, arranged with no order, free to live and thrive, environment suited to a harsher life-

Enjoy your time, short it may be, yet so wondrous, spectacular, miraculous gift of life-

Revel in your sheer existence, for soon your petals will fall like the wind carried seeds that preceded you-

Testing the mere laws of nature, able to survive where most do not, reach for the heavens, stretch your single limb-


From earth, light and water do you appear,
a mystery of the habitat you grow in

Lower than the sky for which you reach
feeding from Mother Earth and Father Sky-

Owing your mere existence, to earthly parents, once again
till next your kin rise and replace you as you did to kin before

Warmth, a gift of the Sun, so far yet close enough to feel, radiant, bright, clear

Ever wanting the touch of life that with just the absence of one, would cease

Remembering a time, not that long ago, that repeats itself
as it has now, once again, a mirror to the past.