Like a bud that opens out <br />revealing what was out of sight <br />a slow unfurling of beauty made <br />the day its seed was planted, laid <br />with much loving, tender care <br />of water, earth and life giving air <br />its nature formed eons ago <br />before the earth was cold with snow <br />this flower has no leaves or stalk <br />nor is it rooted to the earth <br />and doth not its beauty fade with age <br />it has two legs on which it walks <br />this flower is blessed with speech and mind <br />that from all creatures sets apart <br />that flower is there in every human heart <br />and if it seeks the light and not the dark <br />surpasses any blossomed park <br />that was ever grown with care and love <br />and tended by the sun above.<br /><br />David Taylor<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/blossoming-hearts/
