I sat and I watched as a flower gently unfolded <br />I sat and I watched as it blossomed with gold <br />reaching out from its centre its beauty was told. <br /> <br />Ever so slowly it stretched out to the sun <br />basking in light and drinking the rain that came down <br />from the earth it emerged as it grew and it sprouted <br />revealing all that its invisible seed had endowed it. <br /> <br />I sat and I watched as it wilted and faded <br />I sat and I watched as it slowly grew old <br />returning back to its centre its end was foretold. <br />Ever so slowly it reached for the earth <br />with no resistance to falling to the place of its birth. <br /> <br />It had spoken its message, fulfilled its aim <br />in announcing that fragrance that its seed had contained; <br />and now it rests gently on the the warmth of the ground <br />so totally surrendered to that end that it found. <br /> <br />I sat and I watched as all this unfolded <br />I sat and I watched as it blossomed and faded <br />the essence of fragrance, the centre of all <br />my love was made manifest by the unfolding of all.<br /><br />David Taylor<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-life-well-lived-3/
