As if constantly caught in a prayer <br />sprung from the very painful tears of Eve <br />white petals reach holy into the air <br />as if in purity it does believe <br />that it can bring a kind of loveliness, <br />a type of radiant flowering light, <br />as it flowers in a kind of eagerness <br />with a soft fragrance filling the night, <br />as if being a saintly vessel, it might.<br /><br />Gert Strydom<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-white-lily-novelinee/
