Flowers

		If you should run across a seed
			in the course of a busy day,
				please pick it up and hide it
					in the dark gentle pocket of your hand.

		Put it in a flower pot
			and feed it the richness of soil
				and bathe it in the serenity of water.

		Let the Sun caress it 
			with the security of warmth
				as it lies in its earthly womb.

		If you do,
			one day,
				the flower will grow,
					like a baby within its mother
						the bud will rise and stab the sky 
							with newness of life
								genuine and unmistakable.

		When the flower grows up
			a blossom will bloom
				that in its first hours
					will open itself to the world
						and not deny anyone
							its beauty or fragrance.

		If that flower were God,
			it would be everyone's gift
				with no one denied the privledge.